Kyo machiko: Full of cherry lips and plump posture, she plays the wife of a samurai in Rashomon

Crescent eyebrows, round goose egg face, full cherry lips, plump posture - is the standard definition of Lewan classical beauty, put in China is the Tang Dynasty luxuriant woman, put in Japan is the beauty of the Heian period. On the Japanese screen, actress Kyo Machiko has specialized in playing both of these roles at the same time.

Kyomachiko, who came from the Osaka ShochiKu Opera Company (OSK), was signed by Daiei for her asakusa Theater performance, and then starred in the original work of Junichiro Tanizaki and the director of Kimura Keigo's "Idiot Love" (1949), Kyomachiko played the heroine with the charm of the flesh and unrestrained words and deeds, and Daiei positioned her as a "meat actress" (the so-called meat bomb) and hyped it.

This is the first time that the term "flesh actress" appeared after the war, and this word that later became the key to the Japanese film and derived many meanings was not low-level at the time, only because Kyo Machiko, a big actress with hue and acting skills, was not low-level.

Kyo machiko can become one of the big actresses and the pillar of the Big Picture Company, all by virtue of two "qi" - luck and demon qi. She is the actress with the most international awards for her work, and most of the films that won international awards during the golden age of Japanese cinema in the 1950s had her as the lead actress or second actress.

In 1950, Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Venice Golden Lion Award, and Kyo machiko, who played the wife of a samurai captured by bandits, went from "flesh actress" to "best actress".

After 1951, the earliest version of "The Tale of Genji" won the Best Cinematography Award at Cannes, the 1953 actress "Hell's Gate" won the Cannes Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and in the same year " Rain Moon Story" won the Venice Silver Lion Award.

After 1958, Ichikawa Kun's "Key" won the Cannes Jury Special Award, and in 1956, he co-starred with Marlon Brando in the Japanese-American co-production "Autumn Moon Tea Room", and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy/Music. These sun shadows that have been held up on the altar by Western foreigners.

Most of them are imbued with the aesthetics of the Toei scroll-style Yugen, and set against the backdrop of the Heian period, when the atmosphere was the strongest, and Kyomachiko was able to become the spokesperson for the beauty of Heian, in addition to being classical and charming, the most important point was that it had a demon atmosphere that coincided with the background of the Heian period.

During the Heian period, the Yin-Yang Dao was a belief, a national way, and even the official institution of the Yin-Yang Division, the Yin-Yang Liao, and the beautiful women were undoubtedly the best carriers of this way, and the wives of the samurai in Rashomon wandered between chastity and seduction

In "Hell's Gate", Gaza is as beautiful as a poison leading to the gates of hell, and "The Tale of the Rainy Moon" is a female ghost who sucks men in the chaotic world at the end of The Heian Period.

Even though the film later departed from the Heian period, Kyo Machiko's character was still haunted by demons, incarnating Junichiro Tanizaki's Demon Flower in Ichikawa Kun's "Key", while in "Female Family", Kyo Machiko had a variety of means and calculated.

There is a Japanese recognized formula for the growth of big actresses: cute - beautiful - miserable - horror, Yamada Isuzu is step by step and finally reached the "horror" stage in "Spider's Nest City"

Tanaka Atsuyo also ended in horror in "Nishizuru Generation Girl", that is, the so-called acting into a demon, but Kyo Machiko skipped the first three steps and went directly to the ultimate position.

Regarding Kyo-machiko, it is also necessary to mention two films, one is Yoshimura Konzaburo's "Hypocritical Dress" (1951), the film was originally titled "The Dress of the Flesh", written by Kenji Mizoguchi's famous "Gion Sisters" Script Shinto Kanto, kyo machiko played by Kyoto fireworks Yanagiya Miyagawa-cho geisha Jundi, stumbling, charming and moving.

The second part is Kenji Mizoguchi's "Yang Guifei", which has to be admitted that among all the big actresses in Japan, she can play the rich Chinese Yang Guifei, that is, Kyo Machiko, and her appearance and posture are not inferior to Li Lihua, the "Yang Guifei" in Li Hanxiang's shots.

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