Kirin Kiki

Kirin Kiki

January 15, 1943 · 83 years old

Kirin Kiki (樹木 希林 Kiki Kirin) (15 January 1943 – 15 September 2018) was a Japanese actress known for her work in Japanese cinema and television.

Known For

20 titles
1
The Secret World of Arrietty

The Secret World of Arrietty

2010 · 1h 34m · Movie

The Clock family consists of three four-inch-tall people who live incognito among humans, borrowing only what they need to survive. Their quiet life changes when their teenage daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.

7.6
2
Shoplifters

Shoplifters

2018 · 2h 1m · Movie

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar exist...

7.9
3
Like Father, Like Son

Like Father, Like Son

2013 · 2h 1m · Movie

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their...

7.8
4
Still Walking

Still Walking

2008 · 1h 55m · Movie

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

7.9
5
Sweet Bean

Sweet Bean

2015 · 1h 53m · Movie

Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his suc...

7.4
6
After the Storm

After the Storm

2016 · 1h 58m · Movie

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

7.4
7
Returner

Returner

2002 · 1h 56m · Movie

A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.

6.4
8
Kamikaze Girls

Kamikaze Girls

2004 · 1h 42m · Movie

Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.

7.2
9
I Wish

I Wish

2011 · 2h 8m · Movie

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

7.3
10
The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea

2004 · 2h 23m · Movie

A spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.

7.6
11
Zigeunerweisen

Zigeunerweisen

1980 · 2h 24m · Movie

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

6.9
12
Every Day a Good Day

Every Day a Good Day

2018 · 1h 40m · Movie

Noriko is a university student. By her mother's recommendation, Noriko begins attending a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin Michiko. There, Noriko learns from Teacher Takeda. Noriko now has the Japanese tea cere...

7.1
13
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

2007 · 2h 22m · Movie

Masaya is going through a period of intensely rebellious behavior. He then learned that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.

7.4
14
Ballad of Orin

Ballad of Orin

1977 · 1h 49m · Movie

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.

7.4
15
Chronicle of My Mother

Chronicle of My Mother

2012 · 1h 48m · Movie

Based on an autobiographical novel by Inoue Yasushi, the film chronicles the passage of fifteen years within a family struggling with abandonment, resentment and decline with old age. As the world turns, a son who has issues with ...

7.3
16
Lonely Heart

Lonely Heart

1985 · 1h 52m · Movie

Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle develops, and the viewer can't quite be su...

7.3
17
Kakekomi

Kakekomi

2015 · 2h 23m · Movie

The lives of women saved by the historical Tokei-ji Buddhist Temple.

6.7
18
Tora-san, His Tender Love

Tora-san, His Tender Love

1970 · 1h 29m · Movie

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajiro falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

6.8
19
Capone Cries a Lot

Capone Cries a Lot

1985 · 2h 10m · Movie

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

6.2
20
The Best Bad Thing

The Best Bad Thing

1997 · 1h 30m · Movie

A girl rediscovers her dual heritage as a Japanese-American while working at an old woman's cucumber farm.

7.6
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