Keiko Kishi

Keiko Kishi
Born	(1932-08-11) August 11, 1932 Yokohama, Japan
Occupation(s)	Actress, writer
Years active	1951 - present

Keiko Kishi (岸 惠子, Kishi Keiko, born August 11, 1932 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.

Life and career

She made her acting debut in 1951. 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 was a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNFPA. She won the award for best actress at the 25th Japan Academy Prize for Kah-chan.

Filmography

• Hibari no Sākasu Kanashiki Kobato (1952)
• Takekurabe (1955)
• Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957)
• Untamed (1957)
• Snow Country (1957)
• Her Brother (1960)
• Ten Dark Women (1961)
• The Inheritance (1962)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• The Rendezvous (1972)
• The Yakuza (1974)
• The Fossil (1975)
• Akuma No Temari-uta (悪魔の手毬唄) (1977)
• Koto (1980)
• The Makioka Sisters (1983)
• Kah-chan (2001)
• The Twilight Samurai (2002)
• Snow Prince (2009)

External links

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