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Keiko Kishi
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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 pla…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2025
Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2023
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2023
First Love
TV show Kaori Mukai
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2019
Mango no Ki no Shita de
TV show Rinko Okuta (1989)
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2013
Bread and Soup and Cat Weather
TV show Teacher Yamaguchi
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2009
Snow Prince
Movie
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2008
Tokyo Air Raid
TV show Mizuhashi Etsuko
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2007
For Those We Love
Movie Tome Torihama
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2003
The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters
TV show Satoko Kashiwakura
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2003
Kokoro
TV show Kiyono Izumi
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2002
The Twilight Samurai
Movie Older Ito Iguchi
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2002
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
TV show Etsuko Usami
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2001
Kah-chan
Movie Okatsu
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2001
Maria
TV show Umi Sakamoto
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1995
向田邦子終戦特別企画
TV show
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1991
Noh Mask Murders
Movie Toshiko Nagahara
More credits
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1990
Why She Won't Marry
Movie
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1990
Shikibu monogatari
Movie Nun Chishu
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1985
The Autumn in Tokyo
TV show
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1983
I Lived, But...
Movie Self
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1983
The Makioka Sisters
Movie Tsuruko Makioka
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1980
Koto: The Ancient City
Movie Shige (Chieko's mother)
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1980
Zoku zoku jiken
TV show
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1979
Hunter in the Dark
Movie Omon
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1979
Tokyo Suburbia
TV show
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1978
Queen Bee
Movie Hideko Kamio
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1977
Red Torrent
TV show Kimoto Mitsuko
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1977
Lullaby to Kill
Movie Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)
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1976
Mastermind
Movie Nikki Kono
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1975
The Fossil
Movie Madame Marcelin
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1975
Red Suspicion
TV show
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1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Movie Nakatsu
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1974
The Yakuza
Movie Eiko
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1973
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Movie 笠りつ子
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1972
The Rendezvous
Movie Keiko Matsumiya
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1972
Fossil
TV show Madame Marcelin
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1969
L'Essayage
Movie
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1965
The Uninhibited
Movie Nora
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1965
Kwaidan
Movie Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
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1965
Taikouki
TV show Oichi
