Keiko Kishi – Actress, Writer, UNESCO Ambassader
(Robert Mitchum and Keiko Kishi in Yakuza directed by Sydney Pollack)
Keiko Kishi wiki (born August 11, 1932 in Yokohama, Japan)
Keiko Kishi Live Talk Show will be on October 11, 2020
Kishi Keiko is an actress, writer, UNESCO Ambassader and a recipient of legion d’honneur from the French gov’t. She was in “Early Spring” directed by Ozu with Ryo Ikebe. Masaki Kobayashi directed Kishi in 3 films, Inheritance,I will Buy You, Kwaidan, she co-starred again with Ryo Ikebe in “Snow Country.”
She made more than four films with Ichikawa Kon, including “Sasame Yuki – Makioka Sisters” “Younger Brother” … Sydney Pollack directed her in Yakuza with Robert Mitchum and Takakura Ken.
Ryo Ikebe and Keiko Kishi in “Snow Country”
Author of Snow Countray Kawabata Yasunari was at her wedding when she married Yves Ciampi in Paris.
Makioka Sisters
Sasame Yuki -(Makioka Sisters – adapted from a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki)
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(Kishi Keiko with Mishima and Jean Cocteau)
(Early Spring – Kishi Keiko and Ryo Ikebe – directed by Ozu Yasujiro)
Inheritance MUBI – Masaki Kobayashi
(Keiko Kishi with Jean Cocteau – 1960)
From Kishi’s autobiography “Ma Vie A La Carte”, Kishi wrote that as a teenager she saw Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast” 5 times, never imagined that she would in 10 0r 12 years later be directed by Cocteau for his last play at the theater. (Shadow Picture – the Wife of Wet Coat).
(Unable to find any information about this production).