Actress Kirin Kiki passed away in her Tokyo home on Saturday, September 15.
She has also acted in numerous live-action films, television series, and commercials, and recently acted in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) film.
In anime, Kiki played the character Madame Noir in Gisburō Sugii’s 1974 anime Jack to Mame no Ki under her birth name of Chiho Yūki.
Kiki had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, which she revealed had metastasized in 2013.