Keiko Kishi

Keiko Kishi Biography

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

Home Sweet Home (1951)
Hibari no S?kasu Kanashiki Kobato (1952)
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)
The Yakuza (1974)
The Fossil (1975)
Akuma No Temari-uta (1977)
Koto (1980)
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Kah-chan (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Grave of the Fireflies (2005)
Snow Prince (2009)

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