Machiko Kyō
1924-03-25 ( 101 years old ) in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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.

Movies

Kurosawa 2000-12-24
Make-Up 1984-05-02
The Possessed 1976-10-16
Solar Eclipse 1975-09-06
The Family 1974-01-26
Born Fighter 1970-02-21
The Daphne 1966-10-01
Sweet Sweat 1964-09-19
The Third Will 1963-03-31
A Woman's Life 1962-11-18
The Great Wall 1962-11-01
Black Lizard 1962-03-14
Buddha 1961-10-31
Nuregami botan 1961-02-08
Bonchi 1960-04-14
Floating Weeds 1959-11-17
Odd Obsession 1959-06-23
Jirocho Fuji 1959-06-03
女と海賊 1959-04-01
女と海賊 1959-04-01
Goodbye, Hello 1959-01-03
Mother 1958-03-05
Chance Meeting 1958-01-15
Hole in One 1957-09-15
Jigoku bana 1957-06-25
Dancing Girl 1957-02-12
Aizen katsura 1954-04-21
Gate of Hell 1953-10-30
Kurohyō 1953-07-17
Ugetsu 1953-03-26
The Bitch 1951-08-10
Rashomon 1950-08-26
Resurrection 1950-06-10
A Fool's Love 1949-10-16