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Machiko Kyō (京 マチ子 Kyō Machiko) (born March 25 1924) is 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 Rashomon 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 Rashomon.