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Keiko Kishi

Japanese actress and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Keiko Kishi
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Keiko Kishi (岸 惠子, Kishi Keiko, born 11 August 1932 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.

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Life and career

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. She has two grandchildren by her daughter.[1]

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.[2]

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Filmography (selected)

Film

Television

  • Vol 272, Miki
  • Taikōki (1965), Oichi
  • The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters (2003), Satoko Kashiwakura
  • Mango no Ki no Shita de (2019), Rinko
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Honours

References

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