Japanese actress Kyo machiko, who played the heroine in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, died in Tokyo at the age of 95 at 12:18 p.m. on May 12 due to heart failure. Kyo machiko has acted in more than ninety movies in her lifetime.
Kyo Machiko was a legendary actress of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema after World War II, Kyo Machiko played the female lead in Akira Kurosawa's famous work Rashomon in 1950, which won the Golden Lion Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at that year's Venice Film Festival. Master Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon gave her international fame, and Kyo machiko starred as the lead actress in the 1956 Japanese-American co-production "Akizuki TeaHouse," co-starring marlon Brando and Glenn Ford, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy/Music category.
In addition to master Akira Kurosawa, she has also collaborated many times with Japanese master directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Sadasuke Ikasa, and other masterpieces include "The Face of Others", "The Story of the Rain Moon", "Gorgeous Family", and "Akatsuki Zone".