Keiko Kishi
Keiko Kishi (岸 惠子, Kishi Keiko, born 11 August 1932 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.
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Born | Yokohama, Japan | 11 August 1932
Occupation(s) | Actress, writer |
Years active | 1951–present |
Life and career
She made her acting debut in 1951.
In the 1950s, David Lean had proposed her for the main role in The Wind Cannot Read, which is about a Japanese language instructor in India circa 1943 who falls in love with a British officer, but the project fell through.
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 a daughter, Delphine Ciampi, a musician and composer, was born. She divorced her husband in 1975.
Since 1996 she has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
In 2002, she won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress for her role in the film Kah-chan.[1]
Filmography (selected)
Film
- The Idiot (1951)
- Home Sweet Home (1951)
- Hibari no Sākasu Kanashiki Kobato (1952)
- The Thick-Walled Room (1953, rel. 1956)
- The Garden of Women (1954)
- Takekurabe (1955)
- Early Spring (1956)
- I Will Buy You (1956)
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki (1957)
- Untamed (1957)
- Snow Country (1957)
- The Snow Flurry (1959)
- Her Brother (1960)
- Ten Dark Women (1961)
- The Inheritance (1962)
- Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
- Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
- Kwaidan (1964)
- Mastermind (1969)
- The Rendezvous (1972)
- Tora-san Loves an Artist (1973)
- The Yakuza (1974)
- The Fossil (1975)
- Akuma No Temari-uta (1977)
- Rhyme of Vengeance (1977)
- Hunter in the Dark (1979)
- Koto (1980)
- The Makioka Sisters (1983)
- Kah-chan (2001)
- The Twilight Samurai (2002)
- Grave of the Fireflies (2005)
- Snow Prince (2009)
Honours
- Kinuyo Tanaka Award (1990)[2]
- Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2004)
References
- 第 25 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "田中絹代賞とは". Tanaka Kinuyo Memorial Association. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
External links

- Keiko Kishi at IMDb
- Keiko Kishi at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)