Keiko Kishi

Known for ActingBorn 1932-08-11Died 2026-08-07Yokohama, 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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Flying in the Air

An Heir's Place

First Love

Maria

Why She Won't Marry

A Dangerous Hero

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Cinépanorama

Tora-san Loves an Artist

Red Suspicion

Kah-chan

The Twilight Samurai

Two in the Amsterdam Rain

Here Is a Spring

Mother's First Love

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

Queen Bee

Kwaidan

The Makioka Sisters

Tokyo Air Raid

Early Spring

The Fossil

The Inheritance

The Yakuza

Three Loves

Koto: The Ancient City

The Thick-Walled Room

Growing Up

Love Under the Crucifix

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

Her Brother

I Will Buy You

I Lived, But...

The Mask and Destiny

Always in My Heart Part 3

Night in Hawaii

Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

The Den of Beasts

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

The Snow Flurry

Lullaby to Kill

Always in My Heart

The Rendezvous

Doctor's Day Off

Home Sweet Home

Snow Country

Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious

Noh Mask Murders