Kirin Kiki
Birthday: 1943-01-15
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Kirin Kiki (樹木 希林 Kiki Kirin) (15 January 1943 – 15 September 2018) was a Japanese actress known for her work in Japanese cinema and television.
Movies
Returner
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion whi...
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Still Walking
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear....
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Kamikaze Girls
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as we...
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra...
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The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...
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Villain
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time correspond...
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The Four Roughnecks
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Tak...
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Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake....
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Taro the Dragon Boy
Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Jap...
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War and Youth
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the f...
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The Secret World of Arrietty
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their ...
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Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal
A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a de...
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Rainbow Kids
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they pro...
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I Wish
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorc...
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The Triple Cross
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who...
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Zigeunerweisen
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through...
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I Are You, You Am Me
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through su...
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Ghost
Nanami Hoshino, a wealthy entrepreneur, marries potter Kim Jun-ho, and they both live a seemingly ha...
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Remembrance
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao...
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Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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Like Father, Like Son
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was sw...
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Tokyo Marigold
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
An adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a gree...
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Kiki Kirin's Life
This documentary follows the last days of actress KIKI Kirin, who passed away on September 15, 2018....
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Pistol Opera
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killi...
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Until the Break of Dawn
High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for p...
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Song of the Spring Pony
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an inf...
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he...
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The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a b...
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Sakura
The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol....
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Chronicle of My Mother
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novel...
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Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a ta...
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Sweet Bean
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from...
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Dog in a Sidecar
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate a...
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The Mystery of Rampo
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and...
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Inochi
Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the ba...
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Keiho
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be ...
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Yearning
Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he...
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Our Little Sister
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live...
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Koto—The Lake of Tears
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, kno...
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Kakekomi
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taki...
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The Best Bad Thing
After her husband's death, Mrs. Hata desperately needs help on her cucumber farm. Rinko' mother want...
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinos...
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Red Whale, White Snake
On her way to Chikura to live with her son, Yasue Amami gets off at the Tateyama train station. She ...
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Private Detective DOBU 1
Dobu (Kunie Tanaka) used to be a soldier but now is a private detective. Three vagrants were killed ...
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Capone Cries a Lot
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achievin...
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Live My Share, Mother
At school, Fumio is good in everything. His cheerful, out-going personality makes him a great favori...
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The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omn...
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After the Storm
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a pr...
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This Mystery is Excellent! ~ Challenge from Bestseller Writer
Kashiopea no Endo Roru A murder takes place on a luxury overnight train which runs from Sapporo to ...
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Mystery Trilogy Special
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers....
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Fireflies: River of Light
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a ru...
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Private Detective DOBU 2: The Kyoto Murder Case
Dobu, an Edo samurai, is tasked with investigating a string of noble murders in Kyoto, disrupting hi...
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Private Detective DOBU 3: The Exile Island Murder Case
After six exiles return to Edo, four are mysteriously killed. Two survivors, Kosuke and Kingo, lead ...
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Private Detective DOBU 4: The Mysterious Kite Murders Case
In Edo's autumn, a wave of murders hits, targeting those linked to an old case. A young man, Utaro, ...
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Private Detective DOBU 5: The Pinwheel Murder Case
After two thugs are killed, Dobu and his crew have three days to catch the murderers. Dobu suspects ...
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Private Detective DOBU 6: The Origami Murder Case
A spree of murders in the city targets peddlers and komuso monks, all killed in the same method. Dob...
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Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But ...
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The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind nume...
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Yume-Chiyo
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something c...
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Ritsuko: Her Love, Her Death
Winner of the 1992 Galaxy Award Encouragement Prize and the 1992 Japan Commercial Broadcasters Assoc...
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Miss Lonely
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously app...
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Fireworks, Ferris Wheels and Love
Morihara was left a widower 8 years ago when his wife passed away. He attends his first mixer party ...
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Tomorrow Evening
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face...
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Female Teacher
A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to sca...
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Red Paper Lantern
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfam...
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The Wild Daisy
Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to s...
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Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning t...
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A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship stil...
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Hanezu
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes an...
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Kim's War
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest ho...
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Amagi Pass
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir...
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Toki no kagayaki
Yuka came to work as an intern nurse at a hospital and she met Shunichi again. They were school frie...
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Hissatsu shimatsunin
A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering ...
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Oishinbo
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun...
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Down with The Big Boss
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the hig...
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The Sea of Eden
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys ...
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Shoplifters
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives thr...
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Mori, The Artist's Habitat
Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for...
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Life is Fruity
90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata and his 87-year-old wife Hideko live in Aichi Prefecture. Thei...
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Making 'Still Walking'
A documentary filmed behind the scenes during the making of Hirokasu Kore-eda's 2008 film "Still Wal...
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Nunnery Confidential
Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period....
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Every Day a Good Day
A university student attends a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin. There she has t...
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Through the Night
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble o...
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Karate Cop
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendan...
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Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous mo...
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Our War
"Our War" is a special drama produced by Japanese TBS TV. This is the third bomb of the war-themed T...
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Erica 38
Satoko Watabe, who calls herself Erica was organizing business support meetings, and collecting a fo...
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Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue w...
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Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father di...
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
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Tokyo Tower
Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to ...
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The Games Teachers Play
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class....
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Statue in Fire
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band T...
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Heaven Sent
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objec...
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Crane
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Cra...
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Crazy Big Explosion
Chaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a ...
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My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
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Teacher's suitcase
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former hig...
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Two Portraits of MIYAGINO
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
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The Voyage Of Little Sinbad
Story about the adventures and the friendship of two Japanese-Malaysian boys....
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Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row Inmate
Masaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died fro...
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冷たいのがお好き
Harue Hashimoto is a popular mystery writer. She always talks about murder tricks to make it look li...
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Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonat...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special
To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the popular omnibus drama "Tales of the Unusual," in which Ta...
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Cherry Blossoms & Demons
When everything in his life seems to be going wrong, downtrodden and alcohol-dependent Karl has a fa...
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3 Raccoon Dogs
A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their scheme...
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Return of the Champ
A not-so-young "Young Guy" (Kayama) returns in this reunion feature, which takes Yuichi and Ishiyama...
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