She has appeared in several of Takeshi Kitano's films, such as Hana-bi, Kikujiro and Dolls. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Kikujiro.
In 1976 at a Hideki Saijo concert in Yokohama Dreamland Kishimoto was scouted by Saijo's then agents Geiei and joined the agency. She debuted in the 1977 TBS drama "Mu" and first appeared as an idol in TV dramas, movies and commercials being active in many fields including singing. She went on to became a serious TV and movie actress winning several well known awards.
Kishimoto has also gained popularity for her appearances in various commercials including a Manzai double act with Kirin Kiki in the 1980s Fujifilm adverts, the Orient Finance (now Orient Corporation) commercials and her performance alongside Sonny Chiba in the Toyota Carina commercials (for the 3rd and 4th fourth generation models.)
Recently she has appeared in several of Takeshi Kitano's films playing characters with complex and individual personalities. She continues to appear in television dramas and variety shows and has also exercised her literary talents writing essays and novels. She is well known for being an uninhibited actress not afraid to speak her mind.
Kishimoto is on extremely good terms with boxer Joichiro Tatsuyoshi , their relationship almost like that of real siblings. In her later years Hibari Misora was very fond of Kishimoto and treated her like her own daughter. It was Kiwako Taichi and Tomoko Naraoka who had introduced Hibari to Kishimoto.
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Kitano rose to prominence in the 1970s as one half of the comedy duo Two Beat, before going solo and becoming one of the three biggest comedians in the country. After several small acting roles, he made his directorial debut with 1989's Violent Cop and garnered international acclaim for Sonatine (1993). But he was not accepted as a director in Japan until Hana-bi won the Golden Lion in 1997. In December 2016, it was announced that Kitano's first crime trilogy for the Outrage series would be completed in 2017 with Outrage: Final Chapter in post-production as of April 2017.
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His mother, Yuko, suffered from mental illness following her husband's suicide, and Maro was entrusted to his uncle and aunt who lived at the foot of Mount Miwa in Sakurai, Nara, Japan, when he was in fifth grade. Around this time, he was hospitalized with pulmonary tuberculosis, where he was influenced by another patient in the same room and became interested in literature and theater.
He graduated from Nara Prefectural Unebi High School and dropped out of the Philosophy Department of the First Faculty of Literature at Waseda University. During middle and high school, he was a member of the drama club and performed in plays. He joined the theater group "Budou no Kai", but became disenchanted with the political discussions of the upper echelons of the group and left. He then studied under the butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi.
In June 1964, he joined the theater group "Jokyo Gekijo". He left the theater group in 1970. In 1972, he founded and directed his own butoh group, "Dai Rakuda-kan".
In 2006, he became an advisor to the Japan Outdoor Journalists Association and a visiting professor at the Ando Momofuku Memorial Nature Experience Activity Instructor Training Center.
His eldest son is film director Omori Tatsushi, and his second son is actor Omori Nao.
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