Keiko Kishi
Birthday: 1932-08-11
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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 the Wikipedia article Keiko Kishi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Early Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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The Yakuza
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and Georg...
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The Makioka Sisters
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...
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Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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For Those We Love
In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" f...
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The Mask and Destiny
Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive r...
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Mastermind
Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?...
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Her Brother
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a s...
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I Will Buy You
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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Lullaby to Kill
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police det...
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The Twilight Samurai
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
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The Thick-Walled Room
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encount...
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Sakuda is a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam. When his company gets exposed for exporting fire ar...
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The Snow Flurry
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child....
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The Garden of Women
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned do...
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The Rendezvous
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part...
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Rififi in Tokyo
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuab...
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Growing Up
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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治郎吉格子
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man w...
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Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter
Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor...
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疾風からす隊
During the end of the shogunate, there was a group of black-clothed masked samurai known as the "Cro...
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お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved ...
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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a ...
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Snow Prince
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They liv...
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Koto: The Ancient City
Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. Whe...
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Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...
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An Heir's Place
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a...
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Flying in the Air
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky....
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Keiko and Yves Get Married
The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi....
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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie...
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Queen Bee
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's...
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Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it ...
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Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th...
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Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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Always in My Heart Part 3
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again,...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
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The Uninhibited
Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters in...
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Mother's First Love
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and d...
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Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist...
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Noh Mask Murders
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will su...
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Ten Dark Women
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve...
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Three Loves
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. H...
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Love Under the Crucifix
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con...
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I Lived, But...
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f...
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The Refugee
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying...
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Kah-chan
Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth centur...
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Home Sweet Home
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded priz...
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Typhoon Over Nagasaki
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love bot...
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Honno-Ji in Flames
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Ka...
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The Fossil
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a gli...
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Haha machi gusa
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day ...
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Shikibu monogatari
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial acciden...
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Doctor's Day Off
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off....
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Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!
Saito Torajiro directed this light comic musical about the lives and loves of three cheerful, lively...
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For Those We Love
In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" f...
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Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer
An atypical and little-known filmmaker, Yves Ciampi nevertheless left his mark on French cinema. Séb...
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