Portrait of Keiko Kishi

Keiko Kishi

Acting

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Kishi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: August 11, 1932

Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Filmography

2025
Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer

as Self (archive footage)

2023
First Love

as Kaori Mukai

2019
Mango no Ki no Shita de

as Rinko Okuta (1989)

2013
Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

as Teacher Yamaguchi

2008
Tokyo Air Raid

as Mizuhashi Etsuko

2007
For Those We Love

as Tome Torihama

2007
2003
Kokoro

as Kiyono Izumi

2002
The Twilight Samurai

as Older Ito Iguchi

2002
2001
Kah-chan

as Okatsu

2001
Maria

as Umi Sakamoto

1991
Noh Mask Murders

as Toshiko Nagahara

1990
Shikibu monogatari

as Nun Chishu

1983
1983
The Makioka Sisters

as Tsuruko Makioka

1980
Koto: The Ancient City

as Shige (Chieko's mother)

1978
Queen Bee

as Hideko Kamio

1977
Red Torrent

as Kimoto Mitsuko

1977
Lullaby to Kill

as Rika Aochi (proprietress of the Kamenoyu)

1976
Mastermind

as Nikki Kono

1975
The Fossil

as Madame Marcelin

1974
The Yakuza

as Eiko

1972
The Rendezvous

as Keiko Matsumiya

1965
1965
Kwaidan

as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

1965
Taikouki

as Oichi

1963
1962
The Inheritance

as Yasuko Miyagawa

1961
Ten Dark Women

as Ichiko Ishinoshita

1961
1960
1959
1957
Snow Country

as Komako

1956
I Will Buy You

as Fudeko Taniguchi

1956
1956
1956
Early Spring

as Chiyo Kaneko aka Goldfish

1955
The Refugee

as Sachiko

1954
Three Loves

as Michiko Satomi

1954
The Garden of Women

as Tomiko Takioka

1953
1952
治郎吉格子

as お喜乃