Keiko Kishi
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.
The Twilight Samurai
as Older Ito IguchiSeibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth...
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Kwaidan
as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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The Yakuza
as EikoHarry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's...
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Early Spring
as Chiyo KanekoA young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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The Makioka Sisters
as Tsuruko MakiokaThis sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto...
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Hunter in the Dark
as OmonYataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill....
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For Those We Love
as Tome TorihamaIn 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of...
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Always in My Heart Part 3
as uncreditedMachiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
as uncreditedMachiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Queen Bee
as Hideko KamioTo solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji...
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I Lived, But...
as SelfAn extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...
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The Inheritance
as Yasuko MiyagawaOn his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among...
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Lullaby to Kill
as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police...
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The Rendezvous
as Keiko MatsumiyaThe brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and...
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I Will Buy You
as Fudeko TaniguchiA talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...
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The Thick-Walled Room
as YoshikoA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...
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The Uninhibited
as NoraVincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He...
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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
as uncreditedMariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father...
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Home Sweet Home
as uncreditedThe Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded...
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Typhoon Over Nagasaki
as uncreditedPierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love...
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The Fossil
as Madame MarcelinAn industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a...
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Her Brother
as GenSet in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
as RitsukoTora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he...
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Love Under the Crucifix
as uncreditedThe basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both...
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The Snow Flurry
as HarukoAfter surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
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Snow Country
as KomakoIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
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Koto: The Ancient City
as Shige (Chieko's mother)Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store....
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Mastermind
as Nikki KonoZero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called...
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Ten Dark Women
as Ichiko IshinoshitaKaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him....
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Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
as Yuki SakuraiFrench docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of...
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Haha machi gusa
as uncreditedAsako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one...
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Rififi in Tokyo
as AsamiVan Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very...
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Doctor's Day Off
as uncreditedHaving completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day...
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Always in My Heart
as uncreditedMachiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge...
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Kah-chan
as OkatsuOkatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth...
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Growing Up
as uncreditedA boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
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The Refugee
as SachikoA Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is...
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Noh Mask Murders
as Toshiko NagaharaThe patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who...
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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
as uncreditedDai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
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Karuma Tengu: The Fire Festival
as uncreditedThe masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is...
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治郎吉格子
as お喜乃Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A...
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Flying in the Air
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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Honno-Ji in Flames
as TamaThe plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by...
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
as NakatsuAkira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol...
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疾風からす隊
as お京During the end of the shogunate, there was a group of black-clothed masked samurai known as the...
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The Imposter
as 菊路Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior...
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The Garden of Women
as Tomiko TakiokaA student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...
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Snow Prince
as uncredited10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They...
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お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
as お妙Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his...
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Shikibu monogatari
as Nun ChishuToyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial...
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An Heir's Place
as uncreditedThis film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of...
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Here Is a Spring
as uncreditedThe story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...
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Three Loves
as Michiko SatomiIn a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the...
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Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
as uncreditedBorn in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her...
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as Etsuko UsamiDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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Kokoro
as Kiyono IzumiSuenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who...
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Taikouki
as OichiBased on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period...
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Red Suspicion
as uncreditedSachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to...
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Tokyo Air Raid
as Mizuhashi EtsukoWhen Sakuragi Haruko's father's factory is bombed, Oba Hiroto stops Haruko when she tries to...
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Bread and Soup and Cat Weather
as Teacher YamaguchiAkiko (Satomi Kobayashi) lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then...
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First Love
as Kaori MukaiArisa Ueto has a mild intellectual disability and autism. She hides her disabilities, but it's...
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Maria
as Umi SakamotoSora, the third of four sisters, inherits from her father Sakamoto Medical Practice in...
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Mango no Ki no Shita de
as Okuta RinkoRinko and Aya, employed in the Philippines in 1944, escape one of the most gruesome battles of...
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Zoku zoku jiken
as Yasuko TsukizakiDaisaburo Kikuchi (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a skilled lawyer full of humanity, thrillingly depicts...
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