Machiko Kyo, noted Japanese actress.
Her US career was limited to “Teahouse of the August Moon”, but she was in a lot of significant Japanese film: Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Ugetsu“, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s “Gate of Hell“, and she was the female lead in Kurosawa’s “Rashomon“.
During rehearsals, Kurosawa recalled, he had been “left speechless” by Ms. Kyo’s dedication to learning her craft.
“She came in to where I was sleeping in the morning and sat down with the script in hand,” he wrote in “Something Like an Autobiography” (1982), his memoir. “‘Please teach me what to do,’ she requested, and I lay there amazed.”