Eriko Kishi was born on August 11, 1932 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. She is a Japanese film and television actress.
In 1951, she appeared in her film debut, Our Happy Family.In 1952, Keiko Kishi was ranked fifth in the readers' choice of the top ten post-war actresses organized by Heibon Magazine.On January 9, 1953, she starred in the romantic film Hawaiian Nights, released in theaters.She starred in three dramas, including the film "The Unprecedented Sell-Out", which reflected the social phenomena of the time, and "Ask the In 1955, she starred in the movie
Chinese name: Keiko Kishi
Foreign name: KeikoKishi, きしけいこ
Alias: Keiko
Nationality: Japan
Ethnicity: Yamato
Zodiac sign: Leo
Blood type: O
Height: 172cm
Birthplace. Yokohama, Kanagawa
Date of Birth: August 11, 1932
Occupation: Actor, Singer
Graduated from: Kanagawa Prefectural Daiichi Higher Women's High School, Japan
Agency: Matsutake
Representative Works: Family Fun, Roses on the Lake, Kuruma's Fire Festival, Here There Are Springs, Girls' School, Brother
Major Achievements: Best Individual Award at the 20th Monte Carlo International Television Week
Early Years
Etsuko Kishi was born in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan, on August 11, 1932. When Keiko Kishi was in elementary school, she moved around a lot and changed schools a few times due to her father's work, and was mostly fixed when, after the end of the war of aggression against China in April 1945, she enrolled in Kanagawa Prefectural Yokohama Daiichi Higher Women's High School, where she attended the junior high school section. The chaos caused by the air raids at the time made school life very unstable, but Keiko Kishi still frequented the movie theater and particularly admired the actress Mieko Sumi from the film Warm Current. Thereafter, she became active on the school dance and theater stages, and also studied ballet under Masahide Komaki at the Komaki Dance Company in Tokyo, and aspired to be a film actress.
In 1949, Keiko Kishi was introduced to Takashi Yoshitoshi, the director of the Matsutake Film Company's Dafune Studio, by the uncle of her classmate Atsuko Tanaka. From then on, the two of them frequented Oyafune, and met Kozaburo Yoshimura, the director of the film "Warm Current". In October of the same year, Kishi appeared in a scene in the film "Daytime Dance" directed by Yoshimura, and in 1950, Kishi took a test for the selection of movie actors for Daikatsu Studio and was selected.
Acting Experience
Eriko Kishi made her real debut on the silver screen in 1951 with a role in the film Our Happy Family, directed by Muradon. In her debut film, she was recognized by the Matsutake Film Company, and along with Etsuko Miyama, Noriko Hinatsu and Atsuko Tanaka, she became known as Matsutake's "Lucky Clover".
In May 1952, Koji Tsuruta left Matsutake to start his own independent production company, and when the company's first film, "Yataro Kasa," began shooting, he asked Keiko Kishi to take the lead role in the movie. Matsutake immediately declined, but Keiko Kishi's desire to take on more good films was repeatedly blocked by the company. So she finally submitted her resignation in time for the location shooting of Yataro Kasa in Kyoto. The movie was directed by Masahiro Makino, with Koji Tsuruta as the samurai Yataro and Keiko Kishi as Yataro's love interest Asuka.
On January 9, 1953, Koji Tsuruta again enlisted Keiko Kishi to co-star in the romantic film "Hawaiian Nights," which was released with Keiko Kishi playing her first love.
In March 1953, Keiko Kishi returned to Matsutake, and upon her return she participated in the filming of Flock of Crows in the Blistering Wind and The Outpatient Room of the Ethereal Woman, as well as being permitted to participate in filming for other studios. In the movie "Gendarmerie" (Shintōbō), she played a female Chinese spy who falls in love with a Japanese gendarme. In the movie "Leo" (co-starring Daiei/Kenyo Tanaka), however, she won appreciation for her fresh tone.
After starring in "Kageko and Yukie," she appeared in "Journey," directed by Noboru Nakamura, where she played "Myoko," a modern woman who is radiant, well-educated and rational.
On September 15, 1953, the romantic movie "Please Ask Your Name" starring Keiji Sato was released, in which Keiko Kishi played the role of Makiko Shijia, a woman who falls in love with the hero and helps each other during the attacks, and the movie earned 69 million yen at the box office, which broke the record of "Hime Yuriba No Towers"; and on December 1, the romantic movie "Please Ask Your Name, Part 2" was released.
In 1954, a third installment was filmed, and the three films grossed one billion yen, while ticket prices at the time were only sixty yen each, a box office record in Japanese film history. Keiko Kishi's theme song "Life of Flowers", which she sang with Atsuro Okamoto in the second movie, became an instant hit. During this period, she also starred in Thick Walls, directed by Masaki Kobayashi, as a depraved prostitute who boldly appeared on screen for the first time in a thin corset. However, the film was suppressed for three years before it was brought out for public release because it reflected the issue of Class B war criminals.
In 1954, Keiko Kishi starred in "Family Meeting," a film directed by Noboru Nakamura. The movie depicts the cold business rivalry between the Tokyo and Osaka trading houses and the touching relationships between the young men and women who are intertwined. Keiko Kishi plays the role of a cheerful modern woman who speaks Kansai dialect. After that, she starred in "Girls' School" and other films.
In April 1955, when her contract with Matsutake expired, she signed a conditional contract that allowed her to perform in other studios, and formed the independent production company "Carrot Club" with Inako Arima and Miko Kuga. In addition to her work in the film "Here Comes the Spring" (directed by Masashi Imai), Keiko Kishi participated in the 2nd Southeast Asian Film Festival in Singapore in May as the lead in "The Dead", winning the Best Actress Award.
Entering the international arena
During this period she also starred in "Early Spring," directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
Because her contract with Matsutake had expired, Keiko Kishi declared her independence immediately upon her return to Japan in May 1956.
In April, she co-starred with French actors JeanMarais and Danielle Darrieux in the film An Unforgivable Love Affair, directed by French director Yves Ciampi. In order to make this movie, Keiko Kishi studied English and French in London, as well as English family customs. The filming of the movie ended in August.
In 1956, she appeared in the drama film "I'll Buy You," directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
Before going to France, Keiko Kishi also starred in the film adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's award-winning novel "Snow Country" (directed by Shiro Toyoda), which was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
In September 1958, Keiko Kishi returned to Japan for the first time, starring in the film "Windflower," directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, in which she portrayed a woman who had endured humiliation for half her life.
In March 1960, Keiko Kishi returned to Japan again to star in "Brother," directed by Kun Ichikawa, in which she played the heroine who nurses her brother and supports her family with a kind of love. The film won almost all the awards of the year, including the Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress and the Convergence Award, the Blue Ribbon Award, and the Tokyo Film Journalists Association Award. The film also won the Higher Technical Prize of the French Cinema Council for its second year at the Cannes Film Festival.
As well as the film The Night Before Pearl Harbor, directed by Yves Ciampi, which depicted the Soviet spy Zorg. Upon her return to Paris in October of the same year, Keiko Kishi starred in JeanCocteau's stage production of "The Wronged Wife," written and directed by JeanCocteau, in which she played a beautiful Vietnamese girl.
In 1961, Keiko Kishi again played the lead role in the film Ten Black Women, directed by Kun Ichikawa. The film featured Fujiko Yamamoto, Tamao Nakamura, and Kyoko Kishida in the cast. It is a black humor film depicting a man who is murdered by his wife in a conspiracy with nine mistresses***. Keiko Kishi plays mistress number one.
In 1962, Keiko Kishi also co-starred with Tatsuya Nakashiro in the film "Legacy," directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
The actress returned to Japan in May 1963 for the TV series "Midnight Sun" and the French-Japanese co-production "Tokyo's Underworld," where she began to be known as the "Lady of the Air".
On December 29, 1964, Kishi starred with Nakayo Tatsuya in "Snow Maiden," a collection of short films directed by Kobayashi Masaki, in which she played "Snow Maiden," a woman who can spit out white gas and freeze people to death.
Toward the end of 1965, Keiko Kishi quit the Carrot Club and starred in NHK's 1965 "Oka Theater" production of "The Tale of Taikaku".
In 1967, Keiko Kishi starred in a six-episode TV series called "Lemon Girl," in which she played a different character in each episode.
The seventies saw the release of Blood Doubt, A Woman of Age, Along the Map, Dew in the Shade, Shura's Journey, and a television series directed by Yves Ciampi, among others. Among them, The Journey of the Shura won the Best Individual Award at the 20th Monte Carlo International Television Week, and Dew in the Shade won the Grand Prix of the Festival.
In 1972, Keiko Kishi starred in the film "Rendezvous," which was awarded fifth place in the best ten films of Movie Lunch. In the same year, she also starred in the TV series "Fossil" (directed by Masaki Kobayashi and co-starring Toshinobu Sako), which was later converted into a movie in 1975 with the original cast due to director Kobayashi's fascination with the film and his dissatisfaction with the declining state of the film industry, and was awarded the prize for the best film in that year's "Movie of the Day" competition.
In 1973, Keiko Kishi appeared in the 12th episode of the comedy series "The Story of Torajiro," "My Torajiro," in which she played the role of Torajiro's love interest, which was the best seller of the series.
In 1974, she co-starred with Kenichi Ogiwara in the film Amsterdam in the Rain, and also starred with Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura*** in the Sydney Pollack-directed Warner Bros. film The Yakuza.
In 1977, she starred in the Ichikawa-directed film The Devil, which was based on the novel by Masashi Yokogou. In 1977, she starred in The Devil's Handball Song, directed by Kun Ichikawa and based on a mystery novel by Masashi Yokogou, in which Keiko Kishi played a murderer. The movie was awarded the sixth place in the ten best movies of that year by Movie Weekly. Master Mind, a Japanese-British co-production, was also released.
In 1978, she also starred in Kun Ichikawa's film Queen Bee.
Late work
Since the 1980s, Keiko Kishi has also appeared frequently on news programs on NHK and TV Asahi, where she has used her extensive international experience to inform Japanese viewers about current world events and has worked to promote exchanges between Japan and other countries.
On May 21, 1983, she starred with Ryoko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, and Yuko Furukawa*** in the romantic film "Hosetsu", in which Keiko Kishi played Tsuruko, the eldest sister of a young woman who was born into Osaka's rich family and was full of the temperament of a lady of the house; in the same year, she starred with Inako Arima and Yoko Szeki in a film by Matsuhiko in memory of Yasujiro Ozu.
Starred in the drama "Yubari Hour," originally written by Taichi Yamada, and won the Best Program Award and the Individual Award.
In 1984, Shinchosha published "Red Clouds Over Paris," a beautifully written and heartfelt account of her thoughts as an actress and mother during the ten years from around the time of her husband's sudden divorce to the time of his death, which was honored with the Japan Literary Award for Best Essay.
She is also the author of books such as "Paris and Tokyo" (co-authored with Chin Sahoko) and "Sand Boundary" (which describes what she and her daughter, Delphine Maiko Ciampi***, saw and heard while filming for TV Asahi's "6,700 Kilometers Along the Nile," as well as Middle East issues).
1990, Keiko Kishi starred in "Shibuya Monogatari" directed by Kei Kumai.
1991, Keiko Kishi starred in "The Legendary Murder Case of Amagawa" directed by Kun Ichikawa.
In 1992, she starred in the movie "The Reason She Won't Get Married," directed by Seunghiko Ohashi. She played the role of Yuko, a beautiful middle-aged woman who is a professional planner of large-scale weddings and who has had a divorce.
Published by Asahi Publishing House in 1993, "Apples of Belarus," which focuses on the turmoil in Europe in the early 1990s before the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Jewish question, and is based on the experiences of the three former Soviet ****** countries that Keiko Kishi visited during her TV program, won the Essay Writers' Club Prize, the highest award for essays in Japan. The book has been reprinted repeatedly since its first edition in November 1993, and has also been chosen as a reference book for university social studies essays.
In 1994, Kanagawa Television TVK launched a special program called "Keiko Kishi's Times". On the program, Keiko Kishi talked about current affairs, exchanged views on life, and discussed artistic issues with artists and politicians from various countries, and it became TVK's representative program.
In November 1999, Keiko Kishi released her autobiography, 30 Years of Stories, and in August 2001, she began serializing her novels in Fiction New Wave.
In 2009, the quarterly magazine Bungeishunju invited writers and readers***1,043 people to vote for the ten most beautiful and attractive actresses in Japan, and Keiko Kishi ranked ninth.
Personal life
Family
Eriko Kishi's father's name was Kishi Fuck, a civil servant at the Tax Administration, and her mother's name was Kishi Chiyoko. Kishi Keiko had a younger sister, and after her heavenly death, Kishi Keiko became an only child.
Relationships
With the release of the film "Yataro Kasa", news of Koji Tsuruta's love affair with Keiko Kishi spread through the press, and their relationship became a sensation as "the biggest romance of the post-war period".
In December 1956, Keiko Kishi and Yves Ciampi announced their engagement and were married in May 1957 in Paris, France. One of the witnesses was the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. Keiko Kishi settled in Paris after her marriage. Because of her marriage, she gave up her performance of "Bridge on the River Kwai".
Eiko Kishi divorced her husband Yves Ciampi in early 1975 and retired from the movie industry for a time.
Major works
Movies
The Sad Little Pigeon of the Lark Circus (1952)
Singing Contest: The Three Guns of Youth (1952)
Boring Male Hatamoto Wanders through Edo Castle (1952)
Nostalgia (screenplay: Sugako Hashida/1952)
"The Monk Director" (1952)
"Journey" (1953)
"The Maiden's Clinic" (1953)
"Kageko and Yukie" (1953)
"Flock of Crows in the Blistering Wind" (1953)
"The Treasure Box of the Singing Lark" (1953)
"Flowers and Dragons Part 2 - Love and Hate Flow" (1954)
"The Sun Doesn't Go Down" (1954)
"Dimple Life" (1954)
"Going Where" (1954)
"With You" (1955)
"Yakushi Kobo Monk - Edo Chirin Banner" (1955)
The Man Who Couldn't Forget (1955)
You're Beautiful (1955)
White Bridge (1956)
Your Song (1956)
Red and Green (1956)
Rikidozan - The Soul of a Man (1956)
Matsu Bamboo Matsutake Festival Star Chief Super Special Emergency Studio" (1956)
"Matsutake Festival Star Chief Birth of an Actress" (1956)
"Adaptation - Flying to the Sky" (1957)
"Sound and Fury" (1960)
"Gorgeous Battles" (1969)
"I was Born But Biography of Yasujiro Ozu (1983)
Starred in TV series
99 Years of Love ~Japanese American~-2010, director,
Akira's Riptide-1978, as Yuko Tsumura
Akira's Riptide-1977, as Mitsuko Kizumoto
Blood Doubt-1975, as Rie Oshima
Starred in Movies
Going to Die for the King-2007, dir.
Dusk Seibei-2003, dir.
Mother-2001, as Brown
Tenka Legend Murder-1991
Shikibu Monogatari-1990
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Hoso Yuki-1983
Hoso Yuki 1983
Gudu-1980
Hunter in the Dark-1979
Queen Bee-1978, dir.
Devil's Handball Song-1977
The Planner-1976
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Fossil-1975 as Mrs. Maiseland
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The Fossil-1975, dir.
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Bound-1972, as Hotaru Matsumiya
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Weird Tales-1964, as Yuki-no-Ma
Legacy-1964, director, Kawazu_Suke
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Brother-1960
Windflower- 1959
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Dangerous Heroes-1957, dir,
Snow Country-1957, dir,
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I'll Buy You-1956
Early Spring-1956
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Here Comes the Spring-1955
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Female's Garden-1954, director,
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Three Loves-1954
Family Meeting-1954
Please Ask the Name-1953
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Published Books
Social Activities
In April 1996, Keiko Kishi was appointed as the third Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and has been actively working to improve reproductive health care for mothers in developing countries, traveling to many Third World countries to educate their political leaders and ordinary women about family planning and its importance.
Award Record
Character Evaluation
Kishi Keiko has the face of a typical oriental beauty, with arched eyebrows, big slender eyes, matched with a high nose, and the shallow dimples vaguely visible when she smiles faintly. (Sina Entertainment Review) At 1.61 meters tall, Kishi Keiko looks well-proportioned and slender, but she is not the kind of alluring woman from the start, and her populist temperament makes her admirers feel extraordinarily intimate. Her performances are embedded in a way that produces in her an artistic charm that clings to the audience's psyche.
Her performance in Please Ask Your Name is simple and internal, especially good at using hot emotions, not relying on superficial physical movements to convey the content of the play to the audience, some people describe her performance as a beam of penetrating power of the radio waves, once shot out, it will inevitably be reflected in the audience's feelings of this screen: because of this, Kishi Keizi's acting skills and her unique charisma to make more and more to fall in love with her. (Foreign Drama)
When Keiko Kishi married in Paris, her appearance changed during the migration; her appearance gradually seeped into Western elegance from pure Oriental classical style, and French style was added to her beauty, which could no longer be summarized by those euphemistic verses in the Book of Poetry. The very special Parisian aunt in "Blood Doubt", that kind of woman has reached the ultimate beauty. The scent of the dark is floating. No one else is as confident as she is, aging gracefully, like a beautiful crane. Her elegance is the kind of aggression and even a little bit of pugnacity, pugnacity has always been and elegance has no relation. When young, the pure classical exquisite elegance is replaced by a kind of invisible waves atmosphere, her body preserved the last century Japan that era actress unique chastity quiet ancient elegant temperament. (wu city news network comment)