Machiko Kyo
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Machiko Kyō (京マチ子 Kyō Machiko) (born March 25, 1924 in Osaka) is a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s.
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. She went on to star in many more Japanese productions, most notably Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) and Kon Ichikawa's Odd Obsession (1959).
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.
Now in her eighties, Ms. Kyo continues to perform in traditional Japanese theatrical productions put on by famed producer Ishii Fukuko.
