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Motoko Yano, better known as Machiko Kyō (京 マチ子, Kyō Machiko, March 25, 1924 – May 12, 2019), was a Japanese actress who was active primarily in the 1950s.
May 17, 2019 · Machiko Kyo, an actress whose many noteworthy roles in postwar Japanese films included the female lead in Akira Kurosawa’s groundbreaking “Rashomon,” died on Sunday in a hospital in Tokyo. She...
Machiko Kyô was born on 25 March 1924 in Osaka, Japan. She was an actress, known for Rashomon (1950), The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Gate of Hell (1953). She died on 12 May 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.
May 28, 2019 · Machiko Kyo, who has died aged 95, was a revered Japanese actor whose sensuous and expressive performances – notably in Akira Kurosawa ’s 1950 classic, Rashomon – made her one of her country’s...
May 15, 2019 · Machiko Kyo, an actress who starred in some of the most internationally acclaimed Japanese films of the postwar era, died in Tokyo on Sunday at age 95, her former studio Toho announced Tuesday....
May 15, 2019 · Machiko Kyo, a revered Japanese actress whose sensuous and expressive performances — notably in Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic, “Rashomon” — made her one of her country’s first internationally...
May 14, 2019 · Machiko Kyo, star of films by many of Japan's legendary directors, including Akira Kurosawa, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa and Yasujiro Ozu, has died. She was 95.
Machiko Kyô was born on 25 March 1924 in Osaka, Japan. She was an actress, known for Rashomon (1950), The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) and Gate of Hell (1953). She died on 12 May 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.
May 12, 2019 · Machiko Kyō (Japanese: 京 マチ子 Hepburn: Kyō Machiko, March 25, 1924 – May 12, 2019) was a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. She rose to extraordinary domestic praise in Japan for her work in two of the greatest Japanese films of the 20th century, Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu.
A Japanese actress best known for her role in Rashomon (1950), Kyō portrays the wife of a samurai warrior in four conflicting accounts of his murder. She worked with many of Japan’s greatest and most prominent directors in the likes of Ugetsu (1953), Gate of Hell (1953) and Floating Weeds (1959).
