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京マチ子

Professione
Recitazione
Nascita
25 marzo 1924 · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Morte
12 maggio 2019

Biografia

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. Machiko trained to be a dancer before entering films in 1949. The following year, she would achieve international fame as the female lead in Akira Kurosawa's classic film Rashōmon. Kyō starred in many more Japanese productions, including Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) and Street of Shame (1956), Teinosuke Kinugasa's Gate of Hell (1953), Kon Ichikawa's Odd Obsession (1959), Yasujirō Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959), and Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another (1966). Her only role in a non-Japanese film was as Lotus Blossom, a young geisha, in The Teahouse of the August Moon, starring opposite Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford. In her eighties, Kyō continued to perform in traditional Japanese theatrical productions put on by famed producer Fukuko Ishii. Her final role was as Matsuura Shino in the NHK television drama series Haregi Koko Ichiban in 2000. Kyō was nominated for a Golden Globe for The Teahouse of the August Moon, a great feat for an Asian actress at the time, and was awarded many prizes, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Awards of the Japanese Academy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Machiko Kyō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Noto per

Locandina di Rashomon
Rashomon
Film · 1950 · ★ 8,0
Locandina di I racconti della luna pallida d'agosto
I racconti della luna pallida d'agosto
Film · 1953 · ★ 8,0
Locandina di Il volto di un altro
Il volto di un altro
Film · 1966 · ★ 7,8
Locandina di Erbe fluttuanti
Erbe fluttuanti
Film · 1959 · ★ 7,5
Locandina di La strada della vergogna
La strada della vergogna
Film · 1956 · ★ 7,7
Locandina di La porta dell'inferno
La porta dell'inferno
Film · 1953 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di L'imperatrice Yang-Kwei-Fei
L'imperatrice Yang-Kwei-Fei
Film · 1955 · ★ 6,7
Locandina di La casa da tè alla luna d'agosto
La casa da tè alla luna d'agosto
Film · 1957 · ★ 6,2
Locandina di Odd Obsession
Odd Obsession
Film · 1959 · ★ 6,2
Locandina di あにいもうと
あにいもうと
Film · 1953 · ★ 6,3
Locandina di Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Film · 1975 · ★ 7,2
Locandina di 黒蜥蜴
黒蜥蜴
Film · 1962 · ★ 7,1

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