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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.981 |
| Birthday | 1932-08-11 |
| Place of Birth | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Also Known As | Kishi Keiko, 岸 恵子, |
1956
Early Spring
7.6/75
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
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Early Spring
1965
Kwaidan
7.7/365
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan
1974
The Yakuza
7.1/177
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yak...
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The Yakuza
1983
The Makioka Sisters
7.3/43
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid...
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The Makioka Sisters
1979
Hunter in the Dark
6.5/16
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to...
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Hunter in the Dark
2007
For Those We Love
6.4/8
In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied wars...
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For Those We Love
1969
Mastermind
3.3/3
Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has delusio...
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Mastermind
1960
Her Brother
7/13
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a...
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Her Brother
1956
I Will Buy You
7.077/13
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
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I Will Buy You
1977
Lullaby to Kill
6.462/13
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolv...
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Lullaby to Kill
1956
The Thick-Walled Room
7.1/16
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a wh...
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The Thick-Walled Room
1973
Tora-san Loves an Artist
8/5
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
7/1
Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1954
The Garden of Women
6.6/8
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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The Garden of Women
1972
The Rendezvous
6.3/11
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
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The Rendezvous
1955
Growing Up
6.8/5
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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Growing Up
1963
Rififi in Tokyo
5.6/7
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
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Rififi in Tokyo
2009
Snow Prince
5.875/8
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford t...
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Snow Prince
1980
Koto: The Ancient City
6/1
Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned...
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Koto: The Ancient City
1953
Always in My Heart
6.8/4
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and...
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Always in My Heart
1955
Here Is a Spring
0/0
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortl...
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Here Is a Spring
1978
Queen Bee
7.3/6
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating ba...
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Queen Bee
1962
The Inheritance
7.2/24
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are...
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The Inheritance
1953
Always in My Heart Part 2
6.5/4
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Always in My Heart Part 2
1954
Always in My Heart Part 3
7/1
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
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Always in My Heart Part 3
1959
The Snow Flurry
6.6/8
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
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The Snow Flurry
1965
The Uninhibited
5.6/7
Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their...
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The Uninhibited
1961
Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
6.9/4
French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he...
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Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
1991
Noh Mask Murders
5.6/5
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater...
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Noh Mask Murders
1961
Ten Dark Women
5.9/10
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...
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Ten Dark Women
1962
Love Under the Crucifix
6.9/7
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a...
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Love Under the Crucifix
1954
Three Loves
6/1
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy...
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Three Loves
1957
Snow Country
6.7/10
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous t...
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Snow Country
1983
I Lived, But...
6.5/8
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both i...
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I Lived, But...
1955
The Refugee
0/0
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...
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The Refugee
2001
Kah-chan
0/0
Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...
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Kah-chan
1951
Home Sweet Home
6.8/4
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...
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Home Sweet Home
1957
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
6.154/13
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named No...
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Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1960
Honno-Ji in Flames
5/3
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the...
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Honno-Ji in Flames
1975
The Fossil
6.5/10
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes hi...
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The Fossil
1951
Kemono no yado
0/0
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Kemono no yado
1951
Haha machi gusa
0/0
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the o...
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Haha machi gusa
1990
Why She Won't Marry
0/0
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Why She Won't Marry
1990
Shikibu monogatari
1/1
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near...
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Shikibu monogatari
1952
Doctor's Day Off
6/3
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a ma...
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Doctor's Day Off
1955
The Mask and Destiny
0/0
Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of trag...
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The Mask and Destiny
1952
Kyōshū
0/0
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Kyōshū
1951
母恋草
0/0
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母恋草
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
0/0
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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
0/0
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Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1953
An Heir's Place
0/0
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasega...
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An Heir's Place
1954
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
0/0
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
1953
Night in Hawaii
5/1
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Night in Hawaii
2002
The Twilight Samurai
7.754/303
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...
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The Twilight Samurai
1952
治郎吉格子
0/0
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet for...
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治郎吉格子
1952
The Imposter
0/0
Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as...
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The Imposter
1953
疾風からす隊
0/0
During the end of the shogunate, there was a group of black-clothed masked samurai known as the "Crow Squad" who resisted the shogunate's oppression,...
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疾風からす隊
1955
お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
0/0
Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved geisha, Ko-en. On the run, they were rescued by th...
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お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
1953
Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
0/0
1953 Japanese movie
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Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
1957
A Dangerous Hero
0/0
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
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A Dangerous Hero
1952
Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
0/0
Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father, Ry...
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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
2023
Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
0/0
Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision to move to France and to marry director Yves Ciam...
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Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
1957
Flying in the Air
0/0
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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Flying in the Air
1957
Keiko and Yves Get Married
0/0
The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi.
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Keiko and Yves Get Married
1951
Karuma Tengu: The Fire Festival
0/0
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it really our hero, or an imposter?
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Karuma Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951
Minami kaze
0/0
1951 Japanese movie
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Minami kaze
1954
Mother's First Love
0/0
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
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