If anyone can be called the most European classical actress in Japan, it is Keiko Kishi. She is Keiko Kishi, who plays Sachiko's biological mother in "Blood Doubt", Shigeru Oshima's sister Riki Oshima, and "Aunt Paris", a woman who is such a perfect combination of Eastern and Western beautiful temperaments.
When she belongs to Paris, she sees the gentle elegance and calmness of the East; when she belongs to Tokyo, she sees the French literary fashion, noble elegance.
▲ Aunt Li Hui in "Blood Doubt"
Keiko Kishi was born on August 11, 1932 in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan. His father, Kishi, was an official at the Revenue Department, and his mother, Chiyoko Kishi. Keiko Kishi once had a younger sister, and after her death, Kishi became an only child.
During her childhood, due to her father's work relationship, Keiko Kishi transferred schools many times and had no fixed home. It was not until April 1945, when I was admitted to Kanagawa Prefectural Daiichi Junior High School, that it was basically fixed.
World War II was in full swing, and the chaos caused by frequent air raids made school life unstable, but Keiko Kishi still went to the movies regularly. She was particularly fond of the film Beauty and the Beast, based on the original book by the French playwright Jean Cuccotto, and aspired to become a film actress. To this end, he also studied ballet hard, laying a good foundation for his future acting career.
In 1949, Kishi entered the Shochiku Film Company by chance, interned at the studio, and had the opportunity to run a dragon set in "Noonday Round Dance". The following year, he passed the special examination of the factory and was heavily respected by famous directors such as Konzaburo Yoshimura, and while preparing for the college entrance examination, he played a major role in the ethics film "Family Fun" and officially appeared on the screen.
Her superb acting skills were greatly recognized by the company, and she was recruited as an exclusive actor of the company, and together with Junko Tanaka, Etsuko Miyama, and Noriko Hitatsu, she was known as Shochiku's "lucky four-leaf clover".
Keiko Kishi, who became famous in one fell swoop, has unique external conditions: a tall nose, slender willow eyebrows, and large eyes, which make her expression extremely attractive, coupled with her sweet, delicate, and magnetic voice, and generous performance in front of the camera, all of which show her promising future in front of Shochiku.
As a newcomer, Keiko Kishi was boldly launched by the company, co-starring with the famous Koji Tsuruta, in the film "Rose on the Lake" adapted by Akira Kurosawa based on the novel of Fujiwara Ferno, and then took over a series of films, and in the 1952 "Ordinary" magazine readers' selection of the top ten actresses after the war, Keiko Kishi, who was twenty years old and only one year old, ranked fifth.
▲Koji Hatada
Koji Tsuruta broke away from Shochiku's own independent production agency and invited Keiko Kishi to be the heroine of the film while preparing for his first film, Yataro Kasa. In order to get more opportunities for success, she resolutely submitted her resignation to Shochiku in the helplessness of repeated leave requests without approval. Joined the filming of Yataro Kasa and played a pair of samurai lovers with Koji Tsuruta.
In 1952, with the release of the film, the news of Koji Tsuruta's love affair with Keiko Kishi was spread by the press, and the relationship between the two was called "the biggest romance after the war" and became a sensation. Koji Tsuruta fell in love with her and invited her to co-star in Hawaiian Nights again.
However, with the end of her relationship with Koji Tsuruta, Keiko Kishi fell into the first trough of her acting career. In March 1953, Keiko Kishi returned to Shochiku, regardless of the previous suspicions, which of course was the result of the consideration of the interests of both parties.
After she returned, she participated in the filming of "Crows in the Wind" and "Otome's Outpatient Room", and after starring in many films such as "Gendarme", "Leo", "Jingzi and Snow River", "Journey" and so on, she regained the recognition of the company and fans, washed away the decadence that occurred when she broke away from Shochiku, adhered to her beliefs, and defended the honor of the actor.
In September 1953, her performance in the Oriental Soul Break Blue Bridge film "Please Ask Yoshinori" made Keiko Kishi a big star, and the film was an unprecedented hit, breaking the previous record held by "The Tower of Himeyuri".
In 1956, Keiko Kishi became acquainted with the French director Yves Ciampi for filming "Unforgettable Love". He admired Keiko Kishi's artistic charm and acting skills, and Kishi also admired The talent of Xi'anbi, and the two worked very closely during the shooting in Nagasaki.
Four months after filming, in December, Kishi and Xi'anbi announced their engagement, and in May of the following year they were married in Paris, France. One of the witnesses is the famous Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata.
▲ Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972), graduated from the University of Tokyo, was a well-known novelist. When his parents died at an early age, and his sister and grandparents died one after another, he was called "a celebrity who attended the funeral". After a lifetime of travel, the mood is bitter and melancholy, and gradually forms a sentimental and lonely character. He has a serious girlish complex, most of his novels take girls as the main narrative body, and the graceful twists and turns of the inner Chinese words need not be said.
▲ Stills from "Snow Country"
In an article, Kawabata describes her lament after meeting Keiko Kishi for the first time: She is a crystal clear flower that is wet with water. "Play the piano to see Wenjun, and the spring wind blows sideburns." At this point, she dropped a curvature of sandalwood teeth on his heart. He later invited her to star in his Snow Country. It is also the last premarital film that caused Keiko Kishi's marriage to be repeatedly delayed.
▲ In 1964, the family party
After marriage, Kishi Keiko settled in Paris, but often returned to Japan to shoot movies, and traveled between the two places. It seems that a person has left the original region, and with the change of eating and living habits, the appearance and temperament will gradually be imprinted on the region where he is located. Her appearance gradually penetrated from pure Oriental classicism into Western elegance, and her beauty was mixed with French style, and her beauty was no longer summarized by the gentle verses in the poetry.
In 1975's "Blood Doubt", Keiko Kishi's temperament is noble and elegant, coupled with superb acting skills, to create a beautiful, elegant, contradictory Parisian aunt very perfect. That kind of woman has reached the extreme of beauty.
▲ 1967 Return of The Woman
In early 1975, Keiko Kishi suddenly divorced her husband Xi'anbi and once withdrew from the film industry. It is rumored that because his wife returned to China to shoot a drama, Xi'anbi, who lived in two places, had a strong Romantic trait of a French man and gave Keiko Kishi a green hat. Although he tried his best to beg Kishi's forgiveness, even his neighbor Alain Delon came forward to persuade him to make peace. But this conservative oriental woman in her bones resolutely proposed a divorce. This is not just a betrayal of marriage, but perhaps a completely different social background that completely separates the minds of two people.
Only in 1977 did she make a comeback, rich life experience and a good environment, more importantly, she constantly exudes a sunny and positive attitude towards life from the inside out to make her more mature. Maturity is also a beauty that makes women more attractive.
▲ Daughter Mako
In addition to filming, Kishi is also diligent in writing, her articles are often in the newspaper, and she has published several collections of essays. Among them, "Red Clouds Over Paris" published by Shinchosha in 1984 recorded her and her husband's thoughts as an actress and mother in about ten years from before and after the sudden divorce to the death of her husband, with beautiful writing and sincere feelings, and won the Best Essay Award of the Japan Literary and Art Award.
For Xi'anbi, Kishi Keiko has maintained peaceful contacts as close friends after divorcing him, even after fighting for the custody of her daughter for 9 months. As Xi'anbi lamented, "I lost to her homeland, Japan." "Marriage between other races is not easy to maintain. Keiko Kishi's autobiography "30 Years of Stories" released in 1999 is still grateful to Xi'anbi and his family for helping her acting career.
▲ Life in Paris is elegant and romantic
Xi'anbi's parents are very famous musicians in France, and they have a wide range of friends, and the Belgian empress dowager also went to his house to listen to concerts, and this marriage opened Keiko Kishi's eyes to know the world. Before joining the Free France, Xi'anbi was a student at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris. About 20 of their medical students broke through the German blockade and defected to De Gaulle, and about 12 escaped, only Xi'anbi and one who later won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, who was also the founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. For his wartime merits, Xi'anbi received medals, and his funeral (sea burial) was also carried to his hometown by the Croymenceau.
▲ Sada Keiji
In August 2001, he began serializing novels in "Novel New Wave" and realized his long-cherished wish. As an actress and writer, she was awarded the French Order of Arts and Culture "Order of the Order of the Knights (Commandeur)".
After Kishi Keiko divorced, she has been living alone with her daughter, of course, there is no shortage of suitors but has not remarried. In the autobiography, Keiko Kishi wrote about her first love, Tsuruta (who died of lung cancer in 1987), Keiji Sada (1964, car accident), and even Ikebe Ryo mentioned more than once, all of which make people feel a little bit of a light love affair, especially in Ikebe. There has never been any scandal.
▲ Keiko and Ryo Ikebe in Early Spring
▲ Kishi Keiko and her daughter's residence in Japan
When she was young, Kishi Keiko's appearance was particularly classical and delicate, as if she had come out of the "Book of Poetry", and after middle age, she became more European and foreign, and the French romantic mood was also continued in her temperament. A person who sets beauty, figure, acting skills, knowledge, fashion, reason, emotion, has a strong ability to control life, and makes his life full of fun in the world, making people tireless.
▲ Elderly Keiko Kishi
Although she has entered old age, she is still elegant, and the way she sits at the desk and writes articles is really awe-inspiring, as her words say: "In hope and waiting, the years have come as expected, and I am no longer young, and I finally know that I will never have the same grace as her." But I still like her."
The style is magnificent, the dark incense floats, and no one grows old as confidently and gracefully as she does, like a beautiful crane.