Rinko Kikuchi
Department: Acting
Biography
Rinko Kikuchi, born Yuriko Kikuchi, January 6, 1981, is a Japanese actress. Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She is currently Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee in acting categories. The only other nominee was Miyoshi Umeki, who won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1957 for Sayonara.
Known For
Babel
2006
Funky Forest: The First Contact
2005
The Dancing Kettle
2020
The Brothers Bloom
2008
Yoko
2023
Genius Party
2007
Assault Girls
2009
Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter
2023
The Sky Crawlers
2008
Kill
2008
47 Ronin
2013
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
2009
Pacific Rim
2013
Hole in the Sky
2001
Norwegian Wood
2010
The Warped Forest
2011
Sideways
2009
Tokyo Serendipity
2007
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
The Taste of Tea
2004
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
2022
In Love and Deep Water
2023
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
2014
Making-of１７才
2004
Last Summer
2014
Trespassers
2024
A Forest with No Name
2003
Arch Angels
2006
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
2007
Portrait of the Wind
2005
Tori
2004
Endless Night
2015
Age 17
2003
At River's Edge
2011
Dear Deer
2015
69
2004
Terra Formars
2016
42 One Dream Rush
2010
Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
2010
Pacific Rim: Uprising
2018
A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake
2017
Love Strikes!
2011
Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
2017
Umi de no hanashi
2006
We Are Little Zombies
2019
Survive Style 5+
2004
It's Getting Late
2012
The Phantom of August
2002
Will to Live
1999
By Player
2000
Shanghai
2010
The Motive
2004
That Person Has Disappeared
2024
School Ghost Story F
1997
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
2026
Gu Gu the Cat
2014
Churasan
2001
Love Strikes!
2010
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Invasion
2021
Liar Game
2007
Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team
2022
To Give a Dream
2015
Westworld
2016
Weakest Beast
2018
The Frame
2013
PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
2022
Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
2024
Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
2014
A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team–
2019
Tokyo Vice
2022
The Hot Spot
2025
Miss Sherlock
2018
Uso ga Uso de Uso wa Uso da
2026
Kawaii Dake ja Dame Kashira?
1999