Keiko Kishi
Born: 1932-08-11 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Keiko Kishi (born August 11, 1932 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador. She made her acting debut in 1951, but is mostly known for playing the main role in Kimi no na wa (What Is Your Name?). Kishi married the French director Yves Ciampi in 1957, and commuted for a while between Paris and Japan to continue her acting career. In 1963 their only daughter, Delphine Ciampi, a musician and composer, is born. She divorced her husband in 1975. Since 1996 she has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNFPA. Shw won the award for best actress at the 25th Japan Academy Prize for Kah-chan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Kishi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer as Self (archive footage)
2023
- First Love as Kaori Mukai
- Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
2019
- Mango no Ki no Shita de as Rinko Okuta (1989)
2013
- Bread and Soup and Cat Weather as Teacher Yamaguchi
2009
2008
- Tokyo Air Raid as Mizuhashi Etsuko
2007
- For Those We Love as Tome Torihama
2003
- Kokoro as Kiyono Izumi
- The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters as 柏倉 里子
2002
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo as Etsuko Usami
- The Twilight Samurai as Older Ito Iguchi
1995
1991
- Noh Mask Murders as Toshiko Nagahara
1990
- Shikibu monogatari as Nun Chishu
- Why She Won't Marry
1985
1983
- The Makioka Sisters as Tsuruko Makioka
- I Lived, But... as Self
1980
- Koto: The Ancient City as Shige (Chieko's mother)
- Zoku zoku jiken
1979
- Hunter in the Dark as Omon
- Tokyo Suburbia
1978
- Queen Bee as Hideko Kamio
1977
- Lullaby to Kill as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
- Red Torrent as Kimoto Mitsuko
1976
- Mastermind as Nikki Kono
1975
- The Fossil as Madame Marcelin
- Two in the Amsterdam Rain as Nakatsu
- Red Suspicion
1974
- The Yakuza as Eiko
1973
- Tora-san Loves an Artist as Ritsuko
1972
- The Rendezvous as Keiko Matsumiya
1965
- Kwaidan as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
- Taikouki as Oichi
- The Uninhibited as Nora
1963
- Rififi in Tokyo as Asami
1962
- Love Under the Crucifix
- The Inheritance as Yasuko Miyagawa
1961
- Ten Dark Women as Ichiko Ishinoshita
- Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? as Yuki Sakurai
1960
- Her Brother as Gen
- Honno-Ji in Flames as Tama
1959
- The Snow Flurry as Haruko
1957
- Flying in the Air
- Snow Country as Komako
- A Dangerous Hero
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki
- Keiko and Yves Get Married as The bride
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Early Spring as Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish
- I Will Buy You as Fudeko Taniguchi
- The Thick-Walled Room as Yoshiko
1955
- The Mask and Destiny
- Here Is a Spring
- お役者小僧 江戸千両幟 as お妙
- Growing Up
- The Refugee as Sachiko
1954
- The Garden of Women as Tomiko Takioka
- Mother's First Love
- Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
- Always in My Heart Part 3
- Three Loves as Michiko Satomi