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Keiko Kishi

Born 1932-08-11
📍 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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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Filmography 86

Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
2023
First Love
as Kaori Mukai
2023
Mango no Ki no Shita de
as Rinko Okuta (1989)
2019
Bread and Soup and Cat Weather
as Teacher Yamaguchi
2013
Snow Prince
2009
Tokyo Air Raid
as Mizuhashi Etsuko
2008
For Those We Love
as Tome Torihama
2007
For Those We Love
as Torihama
2007
The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters
as 柏倉 里子
2003
Kokoro
as Kiyono Izumi
2003
The Twilight Samurai
as Older Ito Iguchi
2002
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as Etsuko Usami
2002
Kah-chan
as Okatsu
2001
Maria
as Umi Sakamoto
2001
Noh Mask Murders
as Toshiko Nagahara
1991
Why She Won't Marry
1990
Shikibu monogatari
as Nun Chishu
1990
The Autumn in Tokyo
1985
I Lived, But...
as Self
1983
The Makioka Sisters
as Tsuruko Makioka
1983
Koto: The Ancient City
as Shige (Chieko's mother)
1980
Zoku zoku jiken
1980
Hunter in the Dark
as Omon
1979
Tokyo Suburbia
1979
Queen Bee
as Hideko Kamio
1978
Red Torrent
as Kimoto Mitsuko
1977
Lullaby to Kill
as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
1977
Mastermind
as Nikki Kono
1976
The Fossil
as Madame Marcelin
1975
Red Suspicion
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
as Nakatsu
1975
The Yakuza
as Eiko
1974
Tora-san Loves an Artist
as Ritsuko
1973
The Rendezvous
as Keiko Matsumiya
1972
Fossil
as Madame Marcelin
1972
The Uninhibited
as Nora
1965
Kwaidan
as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
1965
Taikouki
as Oichi
1965
Rififi in Tokyo
as Asami
1963
Love Under the Crucifix
1962
The Inheritance
as Yasuko Miyagawa
1962
Ten Dark Women
as Ichiko Ishinoshita
1961
Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
as Yuki Sakurai
1961
Her Brother
as Gen
1960
Honno-Ji in Flames
as Tama
1960
The Snow Flurry
as Haruko
1959
A Dangerous Hero
1957
Keiko and Yves Get Married
as The bride
1957
Snow Country
as Komako
1957
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
Flying in the Air
1957
I Will Buy You
as Fudeko Taniguchi
1956
The Thick-Walled Room
as Yoshiko
1956
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
Early Spring
as Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish
1956
Every Day That New Life
1955
お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
as お妙
1955
The Refugee
as Sachiko
1955
Growing Up
1955
Here Is a Spring
1955
Three Loves
as Michiko Satomi
1954
Mother's First Love
1954
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
1954
The Garden of Women
as Tomiko Takioka
1954
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
Always in My Heart
1953
An Heir's Place
1953
Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
1953
疾風からす隊
as お京
1953
Night in Hawaii
1953
Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
1952
Kyōshū
1952
Doctor's Day Off
1952
治郎吉格子
as お喜乃
1952
Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!
1952
Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter
as 菊路
1952
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951
Minami kaze
1951
Haha machi gusa
1951
母恋草
1951
The Den of Beasts
1951
Home Sweet Home
1951
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950