Name
Keiko Kishi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1932-08-11
Deathday
2026-08-07 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography
Keiko Kishi (born August 11, 1932 in Yokohama, Japan) was 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, was born. She divorced her husband in 1975. Since 1996 she was a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNFPA. She won the award for best actress at the 25th Japan Academy Prize for Kah-chan.
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Known For
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Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteent...
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When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter,...
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This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyo...
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A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relations...
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In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "vo...
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Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen i...
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Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner worki...
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A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love...
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An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, an...
- 1956 Early Spring as Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish
- 1965 Kwaidan as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
- 1953 Night in Hawaii
- 1974 The Yakuza as Eiko
- 1983 The Makioka Sisters as Tsuruko Makioka
- 1979 Hunter in the Dark as Omon
- 2007 For Those We Love as Tome Torihama
- 1955 The Mask and Destiny
- 1976 Mastermind as Nikki Kono
- 1960 Her Brother as Gen
- 1956 I Will Buy You as Fudeko Taniguchi
- 1977 Lullaby to Kill as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
- 2002 The Twilight Samurai as Older Ito Iguchi
- 1956 The Thick-Walled Room as Yoshiko
- 1962 The Inheritance as Yasuko Miyagawa
- 1973 Tora-san Loves an Artist as 笠りつ子
- 1975 Two in the Amsterdam Rain as Nakatsu
- 1959 The Snow Flurry as Haruko
- 1954 The Garden of Women as Tomiko Takioka
- 1972 The Rendezvous as Keiko Matsumiya
- 1963 Rififi in Tokyo as Asami
- 1955 Growing Up
- 1952 治郎吉格子 as お喜乃
- 1952 Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter as 菊路
- 1953 疾風からす隊 as お京
- 1955 Edo Kid as Otae
- 1953 Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
- 1957 A Dangerous Hero
- 1952 Kyōshū
- 1951 母恋草
- 1952 Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
- 1950 Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
- 1950 Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
- 2009 Snow Prince
- 1980 Koto: The Ancient City as Shige (Chieko's mother)
- 2023 Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
- 1953 An Heir's Place
- 1957 Flying in the Air
- 1957 Keiko and Yves Get Married as The bride
- 1954 Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
- 1978 Queen Bee as Hideko Kamio
- 1951 Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
- 1951 Minami kaze
- 1953 Always in My Heart
- 1955 Here Is a Spring
- 1953 Always in My Heart Part 2
- 1954 Always in My Heart Part 3
- 1965 The Uninhibited as Nora
- 1954 Mother's First Love
- 1961 Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? as Yuki Sakurai
- 1991 Noh Mask Murders as Toshiko Nagahara
- 1961 Ten Women in Black as Ichiko Ishinoshita
- 1954 Three Loves as Michiko Satomi
- 1962 Love Under the Crucifix
- 1957 Snow Country as Komako
- 1983 I Lived, But... as Self
- 1955 The Refugee as Sachiko
- 2001 Kah-chan as Okatsu
- 1951 Home Sweet Home
- 1957 Typhoon Over Nagasaki as Noriko Sakurai
- 1960 Honno-Ji in Flames as Tama
- 1975 The Fossil as Madame Marcelin
- 1951 The Den of Beasts
- 1951 Haha machi gusa
- 1990 Why She Won't Marry
- 1990 Shikibu monogatari as Nun Chishu
- 1952 Doctor's Day Off
- 1952 Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!
- 2025 Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer as Self (archive footage)
- 1955 Every Day That New Life
- 1956 Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress
- 1955 So Deep in My Heart
- 1951 The Love Letter Trial
- 1969 L'Essayage
- 1956 The Fighter in the Ring
- 1962 Rue du Havre
- 1965 Taikouki ( 52 episodes ) as Oichi
- 1995 向田邦子終戦特別企画 ( 1 episode )
- 2013 Bread and Soup and Cat Weather ( 4 episodes ) as Teacher Yamaguchi
- 1975 Red Suspicion ( 29 episodes )
- 2023 First Love ( 12 episodes ) as Kaori Mukai
- 2003 The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters ( 10 episodes ) as Satoko Kashiwakura
- 2002 AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo ( 1 episode ) as Etsuko Usami
- 2001 Maria ( 10 episodes ) as Umi Sakamoto
- 2019 Mango no Ki no Shita de ( 1 episode ) as Rinko Okuta (1989)
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1980 Zoku zoku jiken ( 4 episodes )
- 2008 Tokyo Air Raid ( 2 episodes ) as Mizuhashi Etsuko
- 2003 Kokoro ( 156 episodes ) as Kiyono Izumi
- 1985 The Autumn in Tokyo ( 2 episodes )
- 1979 Tokyo Suburbia ( 15 episodes )
- 1977 Red Torrent ( 1 episode ) as Kimoto Mitsuko
- 1972 Fossil ( 8 episodes ) as Madame Marcelin
