Keiko Kishi
- Acting
- August 11, 1932 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- August 7, 2026
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Kishi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer · Self
- Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
- First Love · Kaori Mukai
- Mango no Ki no Shita de · Rinko Okuta (1989)
- Bread and Soup and Cat Weather · Teacher Yamaguchi
- Snow Prince
- Tokyo Air Raid · Mizuhashi Etsuko
- For Those We Love · Tome Torihama
- The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters · Satoko Kashiwakura
- Kokoro · Kiyono Izumi
- The Twilight Samurai · Older Ito Iguchi
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo · Etsuko Usami
- Kah-chan · Okatsu
- Maria · Umi Sakamoto
- 向田邦子終戦特別企画
- Noh Mask Murders · Toshiko Nagahara
- Why She Won't Marry
- Shikibu monogatari · Nun Chishu
- The Autumn in Tokyo
- I Lived, But... · Self
- The Makioka Sisters · Tsuruko Makioka
- Koto: The Ancient City · Shige (Chieko's mother)
- Zoku zoku jiken
- Hunter in the Dark · Omon
- Tokyo Suburbia
- Queen Bee · Hideko Kamio
- Red Torrent · Kimoto Mitsuko
- Lullaby to Kill · Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
- Mastermind · Nikki Kono
- The Fossil · Madame Marcelin
- Red Suspicion
- Two in the Amsterdam Rain · Nakatsu
- The Yakuza · Eiko
- Tora-san Loves an Artist · 笠りつ子
- The Rendezvous · Keiko Matsumiya
- Fossil · Madame Marcelin
- L'Essayage
- The Uninhibited · Nora
- Kwaidan · Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
- Taikouki · Oichi
- Rififi in Tokyo · Asami
- Love Under the Crucifix
- The Inheritance · Yasuko Miyagawa
- Rue du Havre
- Ten Women in Black · Ichiko Ishinoshita
- Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? · Yuki Sakurai
- Her Brother · Gen
- Honno-Ji in Flames · Tama
- The Snow Flurry · Haruko
- A Dangerous Hero
- Keiko and Yves Get Married · The bride
- Snow Country · Komako
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki · Noriko Sakurai
- Flying in the Air
- I Will Buy You · Fudeko Taniguchi
- The Thick-Walled Room · Yoshiko
- Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress
- The Fighter in the Ring
- Cinépanorama · Self
- Early Spring · Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish
- Every Day That New Life
- So Deep in My Heart
- Edo Kid · Otae
- The Mask and Destiny
- The Refugee · Sachiko
- Growing Up
- Here Is a Spring
- Three Loves · Michiko Satomi
- Mother's First Love
- Always in My Heart Part 3
- Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
- The Garden of Women · Tomiko Takioka
- Always in My Heart Part 2
- Always in My Heart
- An Heir's Place
- Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
- 疾風からす隊 · お京
- Night in Hawaii
- Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
- Kyōshū