[KineJapan] Kiki Kirin

[Michael Kerpan]

Very sad! She always added such liveliness to anything she appeared in.

Michael Kerpan
Fukuoka (for one more day)

On Sun, Sep 16, 2018, 9:42 PM David Pinho Barros <dbarros at letras.up.pt>
wrote:

> This is very sad new indeed… I  had the honour of spending a day with her
> last year in Lisbon and to interview her, with Miguel Patrício, for the
> Portuguese film website *À pala de Walsh*. You can check it out here:
> www.apaladewalsh.com/2017/11/kirin-kiki-eu-nao-gosto-mesmo-nada-de-representar.
> She was a wonderfully charismatic and eccentric person, and she will be
> heavily missed.
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> David
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> <http://www.davidpinhobarros.com>
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> On 16 Sep 2018, at 13:33, Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
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> While this was not unexpected, it is sad to hear of the passing of Kiki
> Kirin, one of the more creative and original performers in Japanese media
> today. Studying at the Bungakuza, she debuted as an actor in 1964 under the
> name Yuki Chiho (she later, quite famously, auctioned off that name on a TV
> show). It was with the name Kiki Kirin that she came to national fame in
> the late 1970s with a series of hit TV dramas like Jikan desu yo and
> Terauchi Kantaro ikka in which she humorously played women much older
> than herself. She also appeared in many films, making a mark especially in
> the last decade or so in films by Koreeda Hirokazu (Still Walking) and
> Matsuoka Joji (Tokyo Tower). She was of course crucial to Koreeda's
> Shoplifters, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year. Kiki was also
> known for her rather eccentric marriage to the rock star Uchida Yuya. Their
> daughter, Uchida Yayako, who played the younger version of Kiki's character
> in Tokyo Tower, is an essayist married to actor/singer Motoki Masahiro
> (Departures, etc.). Since he is a muko yoshi, he is legally Kiki's son.
> Japanese film will not be the same without her.
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> https://mainichi.jp/articles/20180917/k00/00m/040/015000c
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> Aaron Gerow
> Professor
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