6 Best Machiko Kyo Movies

By Vlad Zakh · September 8, 2027

Drama intensethought provoking

Machiko Kyo became one of the first Japanese actresses to achieve international recognition, her striking, complex performances helping introduce Japanese cinema to the world.

Face of Another (1966) 01

Face of Another (1966)

IMDb ★ 7.5

A disfigured engineer given a lifelike mask begins to lose his sense of identity.

Odd Obsession (1959) 02

Odd Obsession (1959)

IMDb ★ 7.4

An aging man's declining desire drives him toward increasingly dangerous voyeuristic schemes involving his wife.

Street of Shame (1956) 03

Street of Shame (1956)

IMDb ★ 7.6

The lives of women working in a Tokyo brothel intersect as new legislation threatens to close it.

Gate of Hell (1953) 04

Gate of Hell (1953)

IMDb ★ 7.4

A samurai's obsessive love for a married woman he once rescued leads toward tragedy.

Ugetsu (1953) 05

Ugetsu (1953)

IMDb ★ 8.2

Two peasant men chasing wealth and glory during wartime bring ruin upon the wives who love them.

Rashomon (1950) 06

Rashomon (1950)

IMDb ★ 8.2

Conflicting eyewitness accounts of a crime reveal the unreliable nature of truth itself.

Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

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