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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 a Japanese actress who starred in Rashomon, The Teahouse of the August Moon and other classic films. She was born in Osaka in 1924 and died in Tokyo in 2019.
May 15, 2019 · The veteran star of postwar Japanese cinema passed away on Sunday from heart failure. She appeared in classics by Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu and others, and won international acclaim for "Rashomon" and "Ugetsu".
May 28, 2019 · Machiko Kyo, who died aged 95, was a star of Rashomon and other classics by Kurosawa, Mizoguchi and Ozu. She played modern and assertive roles that challenged the conventions of Japanese film and won international acclaim.
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.
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...
