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.
Known For
All Movies (73)
- Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer2025 · as Self (archive footage)
- Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious2023
- Snow Prince2009
- For Those We Love2007 · as Tome Torihama
- For Those We Love2007 · as Torihama
- The Twilight Samurai2002 · as Older Ito Iguchi
- Kah-chan2001 · as Okatsu
- Noh Mask Murders1991 · as Toshiko Nagahara
- Why She Won't Marry1990
- Shikibu monogatari1990 · as Nun Chishu
- I Lived, But...1983 · as Self
- The Makioka Sisters1983 · as Tsuruko Makioka
- Koto: The Ancient City1980 · as Shige (Chieko's mother)
- Hunter in the Dark1979 · as Omon
- Queen Bee1978 · as Hideko Kamio
- Lullaby to Kill1977 · as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
- Mastermind1976 · as Nikki Kono
- The Fossil1975 · as Madame Marcelin
- Two in the Amsterdam Rain1975 · as Nakatsu
- The Yakuza1974 · as Eiko
- Tora-san Loves an Artist1973 · as Ritsuko
- The Rendezvous1972 · as Keiko Matsumiya
- The Uninhibited1965 · as Nora
- Kwaidan1965 · as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
- Rififi in Tokyo1963 · as Asami
- Love Under the Crucifix1962
- The Inheritance1962 · as Yasuko Miyagawa
- Ten Dark Women1961 · as Ichiko Ishinoshita
- Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?1961 · as Yuki Sakurai
- Her Brother1960 · as Gen
- Honno-Ji in Flames1960 · as Tama
- The Snow Flurry1959 · as Haruko
- A Dangerous Hero1957
- Keiko and Yves Get Married1957 · as The bride
- Snow Country1957 · as Komako
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki1957 · as Noriko Sakurai
- Flying in the Air1957
- I Will Buy You1956 · as Fudeko Taniguchi
- The Thick-Walled Room1956 · as Yoshiko
- Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress1956
- Early Spring1956 · as Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish
- Every Day That New Life1955
- So Deep in My Heart1955
- お役者小僧 江戸千両幟1955 · as お妙
- The Mask and Destiny1955
- The Refugee1955 · as Sachiko
- Growing Up1955
- Here Is a Spring1955
- Three Loves1954 · as Michiko Satomi
- Mother's First Love1954
- Always in My Heart Part 31954
- Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten1954
- The Garden of Women1954 · as Tomiko Takioka
- Always in My Heart Part 21953
- Always in My Heart1953
- An Heir's Place1953
- Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu1953
- 疾風からす隊1953 · as お京
- Night in Hawaii1953
- Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove1952
- Kyōshū1952
- Doctor's Day Off1952
- 治郎吉格子1952 · as お喜乃
- Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!1952
- Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter1952 · as 菊路
- Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival1951
- Minami kaze1951
- Haha machi gusa1951
- 母恋草1951
- The Den of Beasts1951
- Home Sweet Home1951
- Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom1950
- Les Miserables I: God and the Devil1950
All TV Shows (17)
- First Love2023 · as Kaori Mukai
- Mango no Ki no Shita de2019 · as Rinko Okuta (1989)
- Bread and Soup and Cat Weather2013 · as Teacher Yamaguchi
- Tokyo Air Raid2008 · as Mizuhashi Etsuko
- The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters2003 · as Satoko Kashiwakura
- Kokoro2003 · as Kiyono Izumi
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo2002 · as Etsuko Usami
- Maria2001 · as Umi Sakamoto
- 向田邦子終戦特別企画1995
- The Autumn in Tokyo1985
- Zoku zoku jiken1980
- Tokyo Suburbia1979
- Red Torrent1977 · as Kimoto Mitsuko
- Red Suspicion1975
- Fossil1972 · as Madame Marcelin
- Taikouki1965 · as Oichi
- Cinépanorama1956 · as Self