Fabulous Japanese Actress, Kiki Kirin – Moved On at 75
Kiki Kirin 
Josh Parmer posted on FB a sad and shocking news that Kiki Kirin (樹木 希林) passed away. (See a great photo of Kiki there)
May your body rest and your soul soar Kiki Kirin. You have been one of my favorite actresses since I first saw you back in Still Walking.
Interview with Kiki
Kiki Kirin’s response here.
Regarding the afterlife, there is the Buddhist idea of rebirth. Right now, my soul is in this body and this body is Kirin Kiki. After this body is used up and death comes around, that soul and spirit moves on and reappears. I don’t see death as an end.
Kiki with Nagase (Previous post)
Koreeda and Kiki (Shoplifters won Palme’dor at Cannes – 2018)
Previous Cannes festival.
Kiki, for whom After the Storm is her fifth Koreeda film, described the director as among one of the most observant she has seen in her 55-year career.