Machiko kyo biography

Japanese actress immortalized in Kurosawa's Rashomon.Born in Metropolis, Japan, on March 25, 1924.

Selected films:

(bit part) Tengu-daoshi (1944); Ending Laugh (1949); The Snake Monarch (Parts I & II, 1949–50); Resurrection (1950); Rashomon (1950); Jetty of Passion (1951); The Siren (1951); A Tale of Genji (1951); Beauty and the Bandits (1952); Saga of the Unconditional Buddha (1952); Ugetsu (1953); Flat of Hell (1953); A Know Woman (1954); The Story an assortment of Shunkin (1954); The Princess Negate (1954); Bazoku Geisha (1954); Vortex of Spring (1954); Princess Yang Kwei Fei (1955); The Restaurant of the August Moon (U.S., 1956); Street of Shame (1956); Itohan Monogatari (1957); Dancing Youngster (1957); A Woman's Skin (1957); Flowers of Hell (1957); Hours of darkness Butterflies (1957); The Hole (1957); Chance Meeting (1958); The Firm Forty-seven Ronin (1958); A Girl of Osaka (1958); The Makioka Sisters (1959); Paper Pigeon (1959); Odd Obsession (The Key, 1959); Floating Weeds (1959); A Meandering Princess (1960); The Last Idelity (1960); Assault from Hell (1960); Fantastico

(1961); A Design for Fading fast (1961); The Black Lizard (1962); The Life of a Lady (1962); The Great Wall (1962); Buddha (1963); Sweet Sweat (1964); The Face of Another (1966); Daphne (1966); The Little Truant (1967); Thousand Cranes (1969);The Family(1974); Yoba (1976); Tora's Pure Like (1976); Kesho (1985).

A veteran carry-on over 90 films, Japanese sportswoman Machiko Kyo began her vitality as a dancer and prefabricated the transition to films endorsement the strength of her belle and grace.

Possessing a compelling licentiousness, Kyo was one of blue blood the gentry first Japanese actresses to enter exploited for her sex attraction. In 1950, however, she displayed surprising dramatic skill as loftiness vulnerable wife of a samurai in Rashomon, the Akira Filmmaker masterpiece that reintroduced Japanese single to the world market.

Misfortune in medieval Japan, the hide tells of a woman (Kyo) who has been raped weather her husband (Masayuki Mori) who has been murdered, apparently tough the notorious bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune). The story is examine three times by each demonstration the principals in flashback; range time, the tale shifts stay in benefit the teller.

Capturing representation Golden Lion at the Metropolis Film Festival and Hollywood's School Award as Best Foreign Lp, the film brought Kyo universal fame.

Machiko Kyo was subsequently featured in a string of films during the 1950s and Decennium, in a wide variety pray to roles, from the traditional Asiatic wife to a prostitute.

Kyo worked with some touch on Japan's most notable directors, containing Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu, Street in shape Shame, and Princess Yang Kwei Fei), Kon Ichikawa (Odd Obsession), Yasujiro Ozu (Floating Weeds), abstruse Shiro Toyoda (Sweet Sweat). Will not hear of only American film was The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) with Marlon Brando.

BarbaraMorgan , Melrose, Massachusetts