Keiko Kishi (岸 惠子, Kishi Keiko, born 11 August 1932 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.
Keiko Kishi | |
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.jpg) Keiko Kishi (1957) | |
| Born | 11 August 1932 Yokohama, Japan |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, writer |
| Years active | 1951–present |
Life and career edit
She made her acting debut in 1951 in Noboru Nakamura's film Home Sweet Home.
In the 1950s, David Lean 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 that idea fell through and Yoko Tani was eventually cast in the role.
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 (selected) edit
Film edit
- Home Sweet Home (1951)
- The Idiot (1951)
- Hibari no Sākasu Kanashiki Kobato (1952)
- The Thick-Walled Room (1953, rel. 1956)
- The Garden of Women (1954)
- Takekurabe (1955)
- Early Spring (1956)
- I Will Buy You (1956)
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki (1957)
- Untamed (1957)
- Snow Country (1957)
- The Snow Flurry (1959)
- Her Brother (1960)
- Ten Dark Women (1961)
- The Inheritance (1962)
- Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
- Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
- 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 edit
Honours edit
- Kinuyo Tanaka Award (1990)[2]
- Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2004)
References edit
- ^ 第 25 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ^ "田中絹代賞とは". Tanaka Kinuyo Memorial Association. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
External links edit
- Keiko Kishi at IMDb
- Keiko Kishi at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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