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Machiko Kyo

Highest Rated:
100% Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods) (1951)
Lowest Rated:
67% Kagi (Odd Obsession) (The Key) (1959)
Birthday:
Mar 25, 1924
Birthplace:
Osaka, Japan
Bio:
Brought to films in 1949 on the strength of her beauty and dancing skills, Machiko Kyo unexpectedly proved to be an actress of unusual power and intensity. Only 18 years old when she burst onto the international film scene as the humiliated wife in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1953), she followed this…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 67% - 100%
Number of Movies: 13
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2001 Kurosawa
  • Actor
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1966 100% The Face of Another (I Have a Stranger's Face) (Tanin no kao)
  • Mrs. Okuyama
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1960 Jokyo (A Woman's Testament)
  • Actor
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1959 95% Floating Weeds (Ukigusa)
  • Sumiko
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1959 67% Kagi (Odd Obsession) (The Key)
  • Ikuko Kenmochi
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1956 80% Akasen chitai (Street of Shame)
  • Mickey
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1956 83% The Teahouse of the August Moon
  • Lotus Blossom
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1955 Princess Yang Kwei Fei
  • Actor
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1955 The Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yôkihi)
  • Princess Yang
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1953 100% Ugetsu monogatari
  • Lady Wakasa
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1953 Ani imôto (Older Brother, Younger Sister)
  • Actor
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1953 Jigokumon (Gate of Hell)
  • Lady Kesa
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1951 100% Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods)
  • Masago the Wife
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