Machiko Kyō Movies

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marlon Brando

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

1954 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Akira Kurosawa

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Princess Oboro, the queen of the Tanuki palace and stubborn at heart, falls in love with coffeehouse worker Kurotaro at first sight.

Genre: Music

Cast: Takiko Mizunoe

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Higashiyama

Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents and opponents clashed over the construction of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a...

Genre: History

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chiharu Inayoshi

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ayako Wakao

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takako Irie

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers...

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Cast: Saburo Date

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

This short promotional film provides a behind-the-scenes look at "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marlon Brando

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Cast: Machiko Kyō