Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950)
The Tale of Genji – Kozaburo Yoshimura (1951)
Ugetsu – Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
Gate of Hell – Teinosuke Kinugasa (1953)
Street of Shame – Kenji Mizoguchi (1956)
The Loyal 47 Ronin – Kunio Watanabe (1958)
Jirocho Fuji – Kazuo Mori (1959)
Floating Weeds – Yasujiro Ozu (1959)

(Key films outside the jidai-geki genre are listed in gray)

Machiko Kyo holds the distinction of having played three of the most memorable female starring roles in the history of classic jidai-geki: the assaulted wife in Rashomon, the ethereal Lady Wakasa in Ugetsu, and Lady Kesa in Gate of Hell. Even with those stellar performances to her credit, I treasure her most as the sassy prostitute Mickey in Mizoguchi's Street of Shame.