Kayo Matsuo

Kayo Matsuo was born in Tokyo in March 1943, in the middle of the war, and became an actress in the era when Japanese cinema was at its most productive. Beyond that, my information runs out fast: actress, also credited as a photographic and nude model, and very little else that I can state with confidence. I am not going to invent a filmography to fill the space. What this entry really illustrates is a structural problem with how the internet remembers Japanese performers of her generation. Their films exist, physically, in archives and on television reruns. Their careers do not exist in the searchable record with anything like the same fidelity. A woman who worked through the 1960s and beyond has been reduced to a birth date and a job title. That imbalance is worth naming, even when — especially when — I cannot correct it myself.

Name (English)

Kayo Matsuo

Name (Japanese)

松尾嘉代

Reading

まつお かよ

Born

March 17, 1943 (age 83)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

actor / erotic photography model / nude model

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayo%20Matsuo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B0%BE%E5%98%89%E4%BB%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3547959

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• erotic photography model
• nude model

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.