Keiko Kishi

Keiko Kishi
Keiko Kishi (1957)
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. In the 1950s, David Lean had proposed her for the main role in The Wind Cannot Read, which is about a Japanese language instructor in India circa-1943 who falls in love with a British officer, but the project fell through.

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 has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

In 2002, she won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress for her role in the film Kah-chan.

Filmography

Film

• Home Sweet Home (1951)
• Hibari no Sākasu Kanashiki Kobato (1952)
• The Garden of Women (1954)
• Takekurabe (1955)
• Early Spring (1956)
• Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957)
• Untamed (1957)
• Snow Country (1957)
• Her Brother (1960)
• Ten Dark Women (1961)
• The Inheritance (1962)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Mastermind (1969)
• The Rendezvous (1972)
• Tora-san Loves an Artist (1973)
• The Yakuza (1974)
• The Fossil (1975)
• Akuma No Temari-uta (1977)
• Rhyme of Vengeance (1977)
• Hunter in the Dark (1979)
• Koto (1980)
• The Makioka Sisters (1983)
• Kah-chan (2001)
• The Twilight Samurai (2002)
• Grave of the Fireflies (2005)
• Snow Prince (2009)

Television

• Taikōki (1965), Oichi
• Mango no Ki no Shita de (2019), Rinko

Honours

• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2004)

External links

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