Acting
Keiko Kishi
FR, JA, EN, ES cinema · 76 credits
Born
11 August 1932
Died
7 August 2026 (aged 93)
Birthplace
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Also known as کیکو کیشی
Keiko Kishi (born August 11, 1932 in Yokohama, Japan) was 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, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Kishi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer
as Self (archive footage)
For Those We Love
as Tome Torihama
The Twilight Samurai
as Older Ito Iguchi
Kah-chan
as Okatsu
Noh Mask Murders
as Toshiko Nagahara
Shikibu monogatari
as Nun Chishu
The Makioka Sisters
as Tsuruko Makioka
I Lived, But...
as Self
Koto: The Ancient City
as Shige (Chieko's mother)
Queen Bee
as Hideko Kamio
Lullaby to Kill
as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
Mastermind
as Nikki Kono
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
as Nakatsu
The Fossil
as Madame Marcelin
The Yakuza
as Eiko
The Rendezvous
as Keiko Matsumiya
Kwaidan
as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
The Uninhibited
as Nora
Rififi in Tokyo
as Asami
The Inheritance
as Yasuko Miyagawa
Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
as Yuki Sakurai
Ten Women in Black
as Ichiko Ishinoshita
Her Brother
as Gen
The Snow Flurry
as Haruko
Keiko and Yves Get Married
as The bride
Snow Country
as Komako
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
as Noriko Sakurai
Early Spring
as Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish
I Will Buy You
as Fudeko Taniguchi
The Thick-Walled Room
as Yoshiko
Edo Kid
as Otae
The Refugee
as Sachiko
The Garden of Women
as Tomiko Takioka
Three Loves
as Michiko Satomi
治郎吉格子
as お喜乃
