Machiko Kyō
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Motoko Yano, better known as Machiko Kyō, was a Japanese actress who was active primarily in the 1950s. Considered one of Japan's first sex symbols and one of its greatest screen actresses, Kyō is bes
Kyō in 1959
Kyō as the title character in Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)
1950 film Rashomon with Toshiro Mifune
1953 film Jigokumon with Kazuo Hasegawa
Rashomon
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Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki psychological thriller film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori,
Machiko Kyō
…Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Kon Ichikawa, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Shirō Toyoda and Hiroshi Teshigahara, appearing in films such as Rashomon, Ugetsu, Gate of Hell, Street of Shame, Floating Weeds, Odd Obsession and The Face of Another. Kyō received the Lifetime Achievement Japan Academy Film…
Theatrical release poster
Press photo of Toshiro Mifune and Daisuke Katō
The bandit and the wife, in the dappled light of the forest
US release poster for Rashomon