Keiko Kishi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1932-08-11 (93 years old)

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...

Acting

1956

Early Spring

as Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish

1965

Kwaidan

as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

1974

The Yakuza

as Eiko

1983

The Makioka Sisters

as Tsuruko Makioka

2007

For Those We Love

as Tome Torihama

1969

Mastermind

as Nikki Kono

1960

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

1962

The Inheritance

as Yasuko Miyagawa

1959

1954

The Garden of Women

as Tomiko Takioka

1972

The Rendezvous

as Keiko Matsumiya

1963

1952

治郎吉格子

as お喜乃

1953

1980

Koto: The Ancient City

as Shige (Chieko's mother)

1978

Queen Bee

as Hideko Kamio

1965

1961

1991

Noh Mask Murders

as Toshiko Nagahara

1961

Ten Dark Women

as Ichiko Ishinoshita

1954

Three Loves

as Michiko Satomi

1957

Snow Country

as Komako

1983

1955

The Refugee

as Sachiko

2001

Kah-chan

as Okatsu

1975

The Fossil

as Madame Marcelin

1990

Shikibu monogatari

as Nun Chishu

2007

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