Keiko Kishi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1932-08-11

Place of Birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Keiko Kishi

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.

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Acting History

2025
Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer as Self (archive footage)
2023
Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
2023
First Love as Kaori Mukai
2019
Mango no Ki no Shita de as Rinko Okuta (1989)
2013
Bread and Soup and Cat Weather as Teacher Yamaguchi
2009
Snow Prince
2008
Tokyo Air Raid as Mizuhashi Etsuko
2007
For Those We Love as Tome Torihama
2007
For Those We Love as Torihama
2003
The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters as 柏倉 里子
2003
Kokoro as Kiyono Izumi
2002
The Twilight Samurai as Older Ito Iguchi
2002
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo as Etsuko Usami
2001
Kah-chan as Okatsu
2001
Maria as Umi Sakamoto
1995
向田邦子終戦特別企画
1991
Noh Mask Murders as Toshiko Nagahara
1990
Why She Won't Marry
1990
Shikibu monogatari as Nun Chishu
1985
The Autumn in Tokyo
1983
I Lived, But... as Self
1983
The Makioka Sisters as Tsuruko Makioka
1980
Koto: The Ancient City as Shige (Chieko's mother)
1980
Zoku zoku jiken
1979
Hunter in the Dark as Omon
1979
Tokyo Suburbia
1978
Queen Bee as Hideko Kamio
1977
Red Torrent as Kimoto Mitsuko
1977
Lullaby to Kill as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
1976
Mastermind as Nikki Kono
1975
The Fossil as Madame Marcelin
1975
Red Suspicion
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain as Nakatsu
1974
The Yakuza as Eiko
1973
Tora-san Loves an Artist as Ritsuko
1972
The Rendezvous as Keiko Matsumiya
1965
The Uninhibited as Nora
1965
Kwaidan as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
1965
Taikouki as Oichi
1963
Rififi in Tokyo as Asami
1962
Love Under the Crucifix
1962
The Inheritance as Yasuko Miyagawa
1961
Ten Dark Women as Ichiko Ishinoshita
1961
Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? as Yuki Sakurai
1960
Her Brother as Gen
1960
Honno-Ji in Flames as Tama
1959
The Snow Flurry as Haruko
1957
A Dangerous Hero
1957
Keiko and Yves Get Married as The bride
1957
Snow Country as Komako
1957
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
Flying in the Air
1956
I Will Buy You as Fudeko Taniguchi
1956
The Thick-Walled Room as Yoshiko
1956
Cinépanorama as Self
1956
Early Spring as Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish
1955
お役者小僧 江戸千両幟 as お妙
1955
The Mask and Destiny
1955
The Refugee as Sachiko
1955
Growing Up
1955
Here Is a Spring
1954
Three Loves as Michiko Satomi
1954
Mother's First Love
1954
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
1954
The Garden of Women as Tomiko Takioka
1953
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
Always in My Heart
1953
An Heir's Place
1953
Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
1953
疾風からす隊 as お京
1953
Night in Hawaii
1952
Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
1952
Kyōshū
1952
Doctor's Day Off
1952
治郎吉格子 as お喜乃
1952
Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!
1952
Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter as 菊路
1951
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951
Minami kaze
1951
Haha machi gusa
1951
母恋草
1951
The Den of Beasts
1951
Home Sweet Home
1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil