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.

Filmography

• 2025Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special
• 2019Cherry Blossoms & Demons — Yus Großmutter
• 2019Erica 38 — Erica's Mother
• 2018Every Day a Good Day — Teacher Takeda
• 2018Mori, The Artist's Habitat — Hideko
• 2018Shoplifters — Hatsue Shibata
• 2017Kiki Kirin's Izakaya Grandma
• 2017Life is Fruity — Narrator
• 2017The Gods of Food: The Last Promise
• 2016After the Storm — Yoshiko Shinoda
• 2015Kakekomi — Genbei
• 2015Mystery Trilogy Special — Kirika Ohmori (segment "A Mystery Writer's Daily Life")
• 2015Our Little Sister — Fumiyo Kikuchi
• 2015Sweet Bean — Tokue
• 2014This Mystery is Excellent! ~ Challenge from Bestseller Writer — 大森キリカ (案内人)
• 2013Like Father, Like Son — Riko Ishizeki
• 2013Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row Inmate — Tatsuno Okunishi
• 2012Chronicle of My Mother — Yae
• 2012Hanezu — Takumi's Mother
• 2012Until the Break of Dawn — Aiko Shibuya
• 2011A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip — fortune teller
• 2011Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu — Narrator (voice)
• 2011I Wish — Hideko
• 2010Arrietty — Haru (voice)
• 2010Ghost — Unten Sazuki
• 2010Two Portraits of MIYAGINO — Madam
• 2010Villain — Fusae Shimizu
• 2008Still Walking — Toshiko Yokoyama
• 2008The Short Films: We Were All Once Children
• 2007Dog in a Sidecar — Granny Tome
• Dots and Lines
• Kagerou no Tsuji — Oichi
• 2007Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad — Eiko Nakagawa
• 2006Our War
• 2006Red Whale, White Snake
• Natsumeke no Shokutaku
• 2005Tokyo Tower
• 2004Fireflies: River of Light — Headmistress
• 2004Half a Confession — Yasuko Shimamura
• 2004Izo — Izo's Mother
• 2004Kamikaze Girls — Momoko's Grandmother
• 2004The Taste of Tea — Obaa
• 2003Teacher's suitcase — Sensei's ex-wife
• 2002Inochi — Mother
• 2002Returner — Xia
• 2002Through the Night
• 2001Cardboard House Girl
• 2001Pistol Opera — Rin
• 2001Tokyo Marigold — Ritsuko Sakai
• Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations — Lady Kasuga [Iemitsu's wet nurse]
• 2000The Whispered City — Fan of Kyushiro
• 1999Keiho — Defence Counsel Shigure Nagamura
• 1997Fireworks, Ferris Wheels and Love — Sanae Mita
• 1997Hissatsu shimatsunin — Otora
• 1997Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
• 1997The Best Bad Thing — Aunt Hata
• 1996Oishinbo — Tome
• 1995Mitabi no kaikyô
• 1995Toki no kagayaki — Nagashima
• 1994Sakura — Fumi
• 1994The Mystery of Rampo — House Wife / Head of Maid
• Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
• 1993Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
• 1993Yearning — Omatsu
• 1992Ritsuko: Her Love, Her Death
• 1992The Games Teachers Play — Yasuko Takeda
• 1992The Triple Cross
• 1991Kim's War
• Kimi no na wa — 深野柳子
• Private Detective Dobu
• 1991Rainbow Kids — Kura 'Ku-chan' Nakamura
• 1991The Voyage Of Little Sinbad
• 1991War and Youth — Etsuko Onoki
• As If In Flight — 天璋院付き老女・幾島
• Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
• 1990ママ母戦争
• 1989Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape — Otane
• 1988Crane — Yura
• 1988Remembrance — Mine Kamioka
• An Early Autumn
• 1987冷たいのがお好き — Harue Hashimoto
• 森繁久彌の七人の孫
• Hanekonma — Yae Tachibana
• 1986The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
• 1985Capone Cries a Lot — Sene Tachikawa
• 1985Lonely Heart — Terue Amano
• 1985Song of the Spring Pony
• 1985Yume-Chiyo
• 1983Amagi Pass — Ryosaku's wife
• 1983Hometown
• 1983Private Detective DOBU 4: The Mysterious Kite Murders Case — Sen
• 1983Private Detective DOBU 5: The Pinwheel Murder Case — Sen
• 1983Private Detective DOBU 6: The Origami Murder Case
• 1982Highschool Scramble
• 1982I Are You, You Am Me — Naoko Saitoh
• 1982Karate Cop — Sumi Yashiro
• 1982Private Detective DOBU 2: The Kyoto Murder Case — Sen
• 1982Private Detective DOBU 3: The Exile Island Murder Case — Sen
• 1981Private Detective DOBU 1 — Sen
• 1981Return of the Champ — Tomoe
• 1981The Wild Daisy — Omasu
• Yumechiyo Nikki
• 1980Nurse's Husband
• 1980The First Catch
• 1980Zigeunerweisen — Kimi
• 1979Down with The Big Boss — Okonomiyaki Manager
• 1979Heaven Sent
• 1979Taro the Dragon Boy — Yamanba (voice)
• 1979The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
• Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
• 1978Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
• 1977Ballad of Orin — Tama Ichise
• 1977Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal — Mary
• 1977Female Teacher — Yuriko Yokoyama
• Kimagure Honkakuha — Ijuuin Ayano
• 1977Tomorrow Evening
• 1976Sachiko no sachi — Momoe
• 1976The Sea of Eden
• 1975The Viper Brothers and the Young General
• 1975Without Complaint — Haruko Kitani
• 1974Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
• 1974Jack and the Beanstalk — Madam Noir
• 1974Red Paper Lantern
• 1974Statue in Fire
• Terauchi Kantarō Ikka
• 1974The Four Roughnecks
• 1972My Voiceless Friends — Maid
• 1971Go As Messy As Messy Can Be — PTA Mama
• 1970Live My Share, Mother — Nurse Okamura
• 1970Tora-san, His Tender Love — 信州女佣
• Ōedo Sōsamō
• 時間ですよ — 児島（石松）浜子, 児島浜子
• 1969Crazy Big Explosion
• 1968Angel's Lover
• 1968Nunnery Confidential
• 1967The Journey — Chiegi
• 19663 Raccoon Dogs — Midori
• 1966Dianas of the Campus
• 1966Dynamite Doctor Returns — Fumiko (as Chiho Yûki)
• 1966Koto—The Lake of Tears — Kayo Sugumo
• Zoku Yumechiyo Nikki — Kikun

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2019Kiki Kirin's Life — self
• 2009Making 'Still Walking' — Self