Motoko Yano , better known as Machiko Kyō ( 京 マチ子 , Kyō Machiko , March 25, 1924 – May 12, 2019) , was a Japanese actress who was active primarily in the 1950s. Considered one of Japan's first sex symbols and one of its greatest screen actresses, Kyō is best known for her critically acclaimed work with directors Akira Kurosawa , Yasujirō Ozu , Kenji Mizoguchi , Mikio Naruse , Kon Ichikawa , Teinosuke Kinugasa , Kōzaburō Yoshimura , Shirō Toyoda and Hiroshi Teshigahara , appearing in films such as Rashomon , Ugetsu , Gate of Hell , Street of Shame , Floating Weeds , Odd Obsession and The Face of Another .
29-955: [REDACTED] Look up 京 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kyo or KYO can refer to: People [ edit ] Machiko Kyō ( 京 マチ子 , 1924–2019) , Japanese actress Nobuo Kyo ( 姜 暢雄 , born 1979) , Japanese actor Kyō Noguchi ( 野口 恭 , 1939–2009) , Japanese former professional boxer Kyo Kawakami ( 川上 叶 , born 1995) , Japanese kickboxer Kiuchi Kyō ( 木内 キヤウ , 1884–1964) , Japanese educator and politician Kyo Koike ( 小池 恭 , 1878-1947) , Japanese-American poet Kyo Yoshida ( 吉田 杏 , born 1995) , Japanese rugby union player Kyo Maclear , Canadian novelist and children's author Kyo Sato ( 佐藤 響 , born 2000) , Japanese footballer Hanabasami Kyo, Japanese VTuber Kyo Kaneko, VTuber affiliated with Nijisanji Kyo (musician) , Japanese singer-songwriter Kyo, Japanese singer of
58-610: A 1996 Japanese manga series by Ryōji Minagawa Music [ edit ] Kyo (band) , a French rock band Kyo (album) Places [ edit ] Kyo Ya , was a Japanese restaurant in New York City Three villages in County Durham , England: East Kyo West Kyo New Kyo Kyo Burn, the name of the section of the River Team , near the villages another name for Kyoto ,
87-585: A city in Japan KYO, the Indian Railways station code for Khandikar railway station , Assam, India Other [ edit ] Kyo, the ISO 639-3 code for Klon language , Indonesia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kyo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
116-557: A competing revue to the undergraduates, called variably Revue and Integration or Revue and Imitation. The Moira Stuart Cup is competed for annually at the United Hospitals Comedy Revue, by all five of the University of London Medical Schools . It has been won by all medical schools at least once, with RUMS (UCL Medical School) and St George's Hospital Medical School achieving the most victories, winning
145-652: A continued embrace of a unifying authorial presence in this seemingly scattershot genre, much as was earlier the case with Ziegfeld, Carrol, et al . With different artistic emphases, the revue genre is today above all upheld at traditional variety theatres such as the Le Lido , Moulin Rouge and Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin, as well as in shows in Las Vegas. It is a current and fairly longstanding tradition of medical, dental, engineering, legal and veterinary schools within
174-592: A general theme serves as the motto for a loosely related series of acts that alternate between solo performances and dance ensembles. Owing to high ticket prices, ribald publicity campaigns and the occasional use of prurient material, the revue was typically patronized by audience members who earned more and felt even less restricted by middle-class social norms than their contemporaries in vaudeville . Like much of that era's popular entertainments, revues often featured material based on sophisticated, irreverent dissections of topical matter, public personae and fads, though
203-745: A non-Japanese film was as Lotus Blossom, the young geisha in The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Kyō continued to act through her 80s. Her final role was as Matsuura Shino in the NHK television drama series Haregi Koko Ichiban in 2000. In 2017, she was presented with an award of merit at the 40th Japanese Academy Awards . After retiring from film, she moved back to Osaka, where she resided until her death. Kyō never married, but her romantic relationship with Daiei Film 's president Masaichi Nagata
232-413: A single entertainment. Minstrelsy 's olio section provided a structural map of popular variety presentation, while literary travesties highlighted an audience hunger for satire. Theatrical extravaganzas , in particular, moving panoramas, demonstrated a vocabulary of the spectacular. Burlesque , itself a bawdy hybrid of various theatrical forms, lent to classic revue an open interest in female sexuality and
261-451: A substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle , revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news or literature. Similar to the related subforms of operetta and musical theatre , the revue art form brings together music, dance and sketches to create a compelling show. In contrast to these, however, revue does not have an overarching storyline. Rather,
290-412: A traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan , that took place in late 1975 and early 1976. Towards the end of the 20th century, a subgenre of revue largely dispensed with the sketches, founding narrative structure within a song cycle in which the material is culled from varied works. This type of revue may or may not have identifiable characters and a rudimentary storyline but, even when it does,
319-409: Is now sometimes (incorrectly) employed as an analog for "revue," though the term was proprietary to Ziegfeld until his death in 1932. Other popular proprietary revue names included George White's "Scandals," Earl Carroll 's "Vanities" and John Murray Anderson 's Greenwich Village Follies . Revues are most properly understood as having amalgamated several theatrical traditions within the corpus of
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#1732791920519348-634: The Follies charged $ 5.00 for an opening night ticket ($ 130 in 2020 dollars); at that time, many cinema houses charged from $ 0.10 to 0.25, while low-priced vaudeville seats were $ 0.15. Among the many popular producers of revues, Florenz Ziegfeld played the greatest role in developing the classical revue through his glorification of a new theatrical "type", "the American girl". Famed for his often bizarre publicity schemes and continual debt, Ziegfeld joined Earl Carroll , George White , John Murray Anderson , and
377-764: The Marx Brothers and the Fairbanks Twins found great success on the revue stage. One of Cole Porter 's early shows was Raymond Hitchcock 's revue Hitchy-Koo of 1919 . Composers or lyricists such as Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart , Irving Berlin , and George M. Cohan also enjoyed a tremendous reception on the part of audiences. Sometimes, an appearance in a revue provided a key early entry into entertainment. Largely due to their centralization in New York City and their adroit use of publicity, revues proved particularly adept at introducing new talents to
406-624: The Shubert Brothers as the leading producing figure of the American revue's golden age. Revues also had a presence in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, with films such as "Frau meiner Träume" being made. Revues took advantage of their high revenue stream to lure away performers from other media, often offering exorbitant weekly salaries without the unremitting travel demanded by other entertainments. Performers such as Eddie Cantor , Anna Held , W. C. Fields , Bert Williams , Ed Wynn ,
435-567: The American theatre. Rodgers and Hart , one of the great composer/lyricist teams of the American musical theatre , followed up their early Columbia University student revues with the successful Garrick Gaieties (1925). Comedian Fanny Brice , following a brief period in burlesque and amateur variety, bowed to revue audiences in Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910 . Specialist writers and composers of revues have included Sandy Wilson , Noël Coward , John Stromberg, George Gershwin , Earl Carroll , and
464-615: The British team Flanders and Swann . In Britain predominantly, Tom Arnold also specialized in promoting series of revues and his acts extended to the European continent and South Africa. With the introduction of talking pictures, in 1927, studios immediately began filming acts from the stage. Such film shorts gradually replaced the live entertainment that had often accompanied cinema exhibition. By 1928, studios began planning to film feature-length versions of popular musicals and revues from
493-647: The Festival, with St. George's Medics Revue having been performing annually at the Fringe for 18 years and have sold-out their show for the last nine years. The BSMS Medic Revue has performed sellout shows in the Brighton Fringe Festival since 2008. The MDs Comedy Revue performed at the Fringe for the first time in 2015, to a sell-out audience, repeating this feat their second show in 2016 and their third in 2018. The Cambridge clinical school also now run
522-670: The UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia to put on revues each year, combining comedy sketches, songs, parodies, films and sound-bites. One of the most notable and funniest is the Australian National University's "Arts Revue". As well as performing at their respective universities, shows will often be performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe . The Cambridge Medics Revue, St George's Medics Revue, and Birmingham Medics Revues have all performed at
551-443: The bandwagon and produced expensive revues such as Harmony Heaven ( British International Pictures , 1929), Elstree Calling (BIP, 1930), and The Musical Revue Of 1959 (BI P, 1960). Revues are often common today as student entertainment (with strong traditions in many universities in UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark). These use pastiche , in which contemporary songs are re-written in order to comment on
580-469: The college or courses in a humorous nature. While most comic songs will only be heard within the revue they were written for, sometimes they become more widely known—such as "A Transport of Delight", about the big red London bus, by Flanders and Swann , who first made their name in a revue titled At the Drop of a Hat . The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour in the mid-1970s consisting of
609-551: The female lead in Akira Kurosawa 's film Rashomon , which won first prize at the Venice Film Festival and stunned audiences with its nonlinear narrative. Kyō starred in many more Japanese productions, including Kenji Mizoguchi 's Ugetsu (1953), Teinosuke Kinugasa 's Gate of Hell (1953), Kon Ichikawa 's Odd Obsession (1959), and Yasujirō Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959). Her sole role in
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667-612: The masculine gaze. Revues enjoyed great success on Broadway from the World War I years until the Great Depression , when the stock market crash forced many revues from cavernous Broadway houses into smaller venues. (The shows did, however, continue to infrequently appear in large theatres well into the 1950s.) The high ticket prices of many revues helped ensure audiences distinct from other live popular entertainments during their height of popularity (late 1910s–1940s). In 1914,
696-453: The primary attraction was found in the frank display of the female body. Revue comes from the French word for "review," as in a "show presenting a review of current events." George Lederer 's The Passing Show (1894) is usually held to be the first successful American "review." The English spelling was used until 1907 when Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. popularized the French spelling. "Follies"
725-467: The rock band D'erlanger An alias of English singer-songwriter Carol Leeming Fictional Characters [ edit ] Kyo Kusanagi , a main character in the video game series King of Fighters Kyo Sohma , a character in the manga series Fruits Basket Kyō Fujibayashi , a character in the visual novel Clannad Demon Eyes Kyo , a character in the manga series Samurai Deeper Kyo Anime, games and manga [ edit ] Kyo ,
754-508: The songs remain the focus of the show (for example, Closer Than Ever by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire ). This type of revue usually showcases songs written by a particular composer or songs made famous by a particular performer. Examples of the former are Side By Side By Sondheim (music/lyrics Stephen Sondheim ), Eubie! ( Eubie Blake ) Tom Foolery ( Tom Lehrer ), and Five Guys Named Moe (songs made popular by Louis Jordan ). The eponymous nature of these later revues suggest
783-785: The stage. The lavish films, noted by many for a sustained opulence unrivaled in Hollywood until the 1950s epics, reached a breadth of audience never found by the stage revue, all while significantly underpricing the now-faltering theatrical shows. A number of revues were released by the studios, many of which were filmed entirely (or partly) in color. The most notable examples of these are The Show of Shows ( Warner Brothers , 1929), The Hollywood Revue of 1929 ( Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , 1929), Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 ( Fox Film Corporation , 1929), Paramount on Parade ( Paramount , 1930), New Movietone Follies of 1930 (Fox, 1930), and King of Jazz ( Universal , 1930). Even Britain jumped on
812-539: Was born Motoko Yano ( 矢野 元子 , Yano Motoko ) in Osaka in 1924. Her father left when she was age 5, and she was raised by her mother and grandmother. She adopted Machiko Kyō as her stage name when she entered the Osaka Shochiku Kagekidan in 1936 at age 12. She trained as a revue dancer and then entered the film industry through Daiei Film in 1949. Two years later, she achieved international fame as
841-617: Was well-publicized in Japan. Kyō died from heart failure at her home in Tokyo on May 12, 2019 at the age of 95. She was the last main surviving cast member of Rashomon . Fujiko Yamamoto described Kyo as a very friendly person and loved the older actress like a big sister. Revue A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music , dance , and sketches . The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into
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