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name: "Keiko Deguchi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/keiko-deguchi"
fi1m_id: "keiko-deguchi"
imdb_id: "nm0214874"
tmdb_id: 937912
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T21:07:33.524219+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Keiko Deguchi

## Identity

Keiko Deguchi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/keiko-deguchi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** keiko-deguchi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0214874
- **TMDB ID:** 937912
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0214874/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/937912

Editor. Born in Kyoto, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 67 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0214874/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/937912

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Task*](https://film.one/tv/task.md) (67)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Keiko Deguchi is a film editor who has worked on both narrative features and documentaries. Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1962, she moved to New York in 1985 to study cinema at New York University and began working as an editor in 1987. She is based in New York City.

Deguchi has edited numerous independent films, including *Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus* (2006), *We the Animals* (2018) and *Hustle* (2022). Her documentary credits include *In a Dream* (2008), *Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project* (2019) and *Paper & Glue* (2021). She edited four episodes of the 2025 series *Task* and the documentary *Love+War* (2025).

She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Editing for *We the Animals* and a News and Documentary Emmy Award nomination for *Love+War*.

*Sources: imdb.com, womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu, grokipedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Task* (2025), Fi1m 67, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/task.md)
- *Free Solo* (2018), Fi1m 82, Additional Editing — [page](https://film.one/film/free-solo.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Love+War* (2025), Editor
- *Task* (2025), series, Editor — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/task.md)
- *Ainu Puri* (2024), Editor
- *You Resemble Me* (2022), Editor
- *Paper & Glue* (2021), Editor
- *What Would Sophia Loren Do?* (2021), Editor
- *Ainu Mosir* (2020), Editor
- *Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project* (2019), Editor
- *Tigerland* (2019), Editor
- *Free Solo* (2018), as Additional Editing — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/free-solo.md)
- *We the Animals* (2018), Editor
- *Warrior Women* (2018), Editor
- *Black Memorabilia* (2018), Script Supervisor
- *Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA* (2017), Consulting Editor
- *Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing* (2016), Editor
- *God Knows Where I Am* (2016), Editor
- *Brothers Hypnotic* (2014), Editor
- *The Hot Flashes* (2013), Editor
- *When I Walk* (2013), Editor
- *Musical Chairs* (2012), Editor
- *Deaf Jam* (2011), Editor
- *To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America* (2010), Editor
- *In a Dream* (2009), Editor
- *Handsome Harry* (2009), Editor
- *Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus* (2006), Editor
- *America Brown* (2005), Editor
- *Boynton Beach Club* (2005), Editor
- *The Ranch* (2004), Editor
- *Power and Beauty* (2002), Editor
- *The Business of Strangers* (2001), Editor
- *The Girl* (2000), Editor
- *Luminous Motion* (2000), Editor, Music Editor
- *The Real Blonde* (1998), Editor
- *Michael* (1996), Assistant Editor
- *Home* (1990), Assistant Editor

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