FrameThrower · Actors · Machiko Kyō
Machiko Kyō
3 films · 153 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1950–1959
Born 25 March 1924 · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan · died 12 May 2019
Machiko Kyō was 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 Rashōmon 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 Rashōmon.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 153 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1950–1959
- Order of the Precious Crown, 4th Class1994
- Medal with Purple Ribbon1987
- Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress
How their films are shot
Measured across 153 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Machiko takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 72% of their frames are day, 58% natural — the look of the work Machiko takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 153 frames from Machiko Kyō's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.