Keiko Kishi | |
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.jpg')) Keiko Kishi (1957) | |
| Born | August 11, 1932 Yokohama, Japan |
| Occupation | 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.[1]
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
References
- ^ 第 25 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
External links
- Keiko Kishi at IMDb
- Keiko Kishi at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)