Keiko Kishi

Born: 1932-08-11

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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Kwaidan

as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Released: 1965-01-06

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...

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The Twilight Samurai

as Older Ito Iguchi
Released: 2002-11-02

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth...

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The Yakuza

as Eiko
Released: 1974-12-21

American private eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from...

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Early Spring

as Chiyo Kaneko
Released: 1956-01-29

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless...

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The Makioka Sisters

as Tsuruko Makioka
Released: 1983-05-21

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto...

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For Those We Love

as Tome Torihama
Released: 2007-05-12

In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of...

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Lullaby to Kill

as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
Released: 1977-04-02

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police...

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Queen Bee

as Hideko Kamio
Released: 1978-02-11

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji...

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Noh Mask Murders

as Toshiko Nagahara
Released: 1991-03-15

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who...

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Snow Country

as Komako
Released: 1957-04-30

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...

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The Rendezvous

as Keiko Matsumiya
Released: 1972-03-29

The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and...

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Hunter in the Dark

as Omon
Released: 1979-06-17

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill....

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Ten Dark Women

as Ichiko Ishinoshita
Released: 1961-05-03

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him....

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The Uninhibited

as Nora
Released: 1965-04-21

Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He...

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The Inheritance

as Yasuko Miyagawa
Released: 1962-02-16

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose...

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The Thick-Walled Room

as Yoshiko
Released: 1956-10-31

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...

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I Will Buy You

as Fudeko Taniguchi
Released: 1956-11-21

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...

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The Garden of Women

as Tomiko Takioka
Released: 1954-03-16

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...

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Her Brother

as Gen
Released: 1960-11-01

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of...

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Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious

as uncredited
Released: 2023-10-16

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her...

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Flying in the Air

as uncredited
Released: 1957-01-09

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

as uncredited
Released: 1950-11-03

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Koto: The Ancient City

as Shige (Chieko's mother)
Released: 1980-12-20

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store....

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Love Under the Crucifix

as uncredited
Released: 1962-06-03

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both...

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Typhoon Over Nagasaki

as uncredited
Released: 1957-02-06

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love...

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The Fossil

as Madame Marcelin
Released: 1974-01-01

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a...

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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

as uncredited
Released: 1954-03-24

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

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An Heir's Place

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-03

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of...

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Why She Won't Marry

as uncredited
Released: 1990-12-26

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A Dangerous Hero

as uncredited
Released: 1957-07-30

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

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Honno-Ji in Flames

as Tama
Released: 1960-09-11

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by...

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Snow Prince

as uncredited
Released: 2009-12-12

10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They...

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Here Is a Spring

as uncredited
Released: 1955-02-12

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...

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I Lived, But...

as Self
Released: 1983-10-29

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...

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Tora-san Loves an Artist

as Ritsuko
Released: 1973-12-25

Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he...

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Doctor's Day Off

as uncredited
Released: 1952-04-01

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day...

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The Snow Flurry

as Haruko
Released: 1959-01-03

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

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The Refugee

as Sachiko
Released: 1955-05-03

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is...

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Night in Hawaii

as uncredited
Released: 1953-01-09

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Home Sweet Home

as uncredited
Released: 1951-03-21

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded...

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The Den of Beasts

as uncredited
Released: 1951-06-08

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Rififi in Tokyo

as Asami
Released: 1963-03-29

Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very...

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Keiko and Yves Get Married

as The bride
Released: 1957-05-01

The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi.

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Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

as Yuki Sakurai
Released: 1961-03-29

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of...

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Kah-chan

as Okatsu
Released: 2001-11-10

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth...

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Mastermind

as Nikki Kono
Released: 1969-06-03

Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called...

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Always in My Heart Part 3

as uncredited
Released: 1954-04-27

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet...

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Shikibu monogatari

as Nun Chishu
Released: 1990-10-06

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial...

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Always in My Heart

as uncredited
Released: 1953-09-15

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge...

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Kyōshū

as uncredited
Released: 1952-07-02

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Growing Up

as uncredited
Released: 1955-04-01

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

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Minami kaze

as uncredited
Released: 1951-09-14

1951 Japanese movie

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Always in My Heart Part 2

as uncredited
Released: 1953-12-01

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

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Three Loves

as Michiko Satomi
Released: 1954-12-29

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the...

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治郎吉格子

as お喜乃
Released: 1952-02-22

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A...

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Two in the Amsterdam Rain

as Nakatsu
Released: 1975-03-20

Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol...

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母恋草

as uncredited
Released: 1951-06-29

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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove

as uncredited
Released: 1952-07-15

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father...

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疾風からす隊

as お京
Released: 1953-03-26

During the end of the shogunate, there was a group of black-clothed masked samurai known as the...

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Mother's First Love

as uncredited
Released: 1954-09-17

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother...

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The Imposter

as 菊路
Released: 1952-01-14

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior...

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Karuma Tengu: The Fire Festival

as uncredited
Released: 1951-10-12

The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is...

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Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu

as uncredited
Released: 1953-04-01

1953 Japanese movie

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お役者小僧 江戸千両幟

as お妙
Released: 1955-08-10

Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his...

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Haha machi gusa

as uncredited
Released: 1951-08-17

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one...

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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

as Etsuko Usami
First aired: 2002-10-09

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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Kokoro

as Kiyono Izumi
First aired: 2003-03-31

Suenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who...

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Taikouki

as Oichi
First aired: 1965-01-03

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period...

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Red Suspicion

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-10-03

Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to...

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The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters

as 柏倉 里子
First aired: 2003-10-12

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Zoku zoku jiken

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-09-14

Daisaburo Kikuchi (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a skilled lawyer full of humanity, thrillingly depicts...

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Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

as Teacher Yamaguchi
First aired: 2013-07-21

Akiko lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her...

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Maria

as Umi Sakamoto
First aired: 2001-07-04

Sora, the third of four sisters, inherits from her father Sakamoto Medical Practice in...

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Tokyo Air Raid

as Mizuhashi Etsuko
First aired: 2008-03-17

When Sakuragi Haruko's father's factory is bombed, Oba Hiroto stops Haruko when she tries to...

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First Love

as Kaori Mukai
First aired: 2023-07-07

Arisa Ueto has a mild intellectual disability and autism. She hides her disabilities, but it's...

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The Autumn in Tokyo

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-11-10

A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of...

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Mango no Ki no Shita de

as Okuta Rinko
First aired: 2019-08-08

Rinko and Aya, employed in the Philippines in 1944, escape one of the most gruesome battles of...

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Tokyo Suburbia

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-04-13

Two couples are confronted with the fact that their children have dropped out of high school and...

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