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Rinko Kikuchi

Actor

Rinko Kikuchi

Born January 6, 1981 in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan55 films

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.

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Babel posterFirst watchBabel20067.2as ChiekoTragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Pacific Rim poster7.0Pacific Rim2013Pacific Rim: Uprising poster6.1Pacific Rim: Uprising201847 Ronin poster6.247 Ronin2013The Brothers Bloom poster6.6The Brothers Bloom2008Survive Style 5+ poster7.3Survive Style 5+2004The Taste of Tea poster7.5The Taste of Tea2004Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter poster6.6Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter2014Norwegian Wood poster6.4Norwegian Wood2010

Filmography

55 films as actor
  1. 2026Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!Haru
  2. 2026いのこりぐみ
  3. 2025Ya Boy Kongming! The MovieAyvil Suzuki
  4. 2024That Person Has DisappearedTerada
  5. 2024TrespassersTanaka Akiko
  6. 2023In Love and Deep WaterAina Horikawa
  7. 2023YokoYoko
  8. 2023Menstrual Uncle and His DaughterKitashiro Urara
  9. 2022What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?Colonel Sen Masago
  10. 2020The Dancing Kettle
  11. 2019Aging Police / Resurrection Special
  12. 2019We Are Little ZombiesYuko Ibu
  13. 2018Pacific Rim: UprisingMako Mori
  14. 2017Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
  15. 2017A Story About Kagurazaka and SakeEtsuko
  16. 2016Terra FormarsAsuka Moriki
  17. 2015Endless NightAllaka
  18. 2015Dear DeerOnlooker
  19. 2014Kumiko, the Treasure HunterKumiko
  20. 2014Last SummerNaomi
  21. 201347 RoninWitch
  22. 2013Pacific RimMako Mori
  23. 2012It's Getting LateAnna
  24. 2011The Warped Forest
  25. 2011Love Strikes!Naoko Hayashida
  26. 2011At River's EdgeTazu
  27. 2010Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
  28. 2010Norwegian WoodNaoko
  29. 201042 One Dream Rush
  30. 2010ShanghaiSumiko (uncredited)
  31. 2009Assault GirlsLucifer
  32. 2009Map of the Sounds of TokyoRyu
  33. 2009SidewaysMina Parker
  34. 2008Kill(segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
  35. 2008The Brothers BloomBang Bang
  36. 2008The Sky CrawlersSuito Kusanagi (voice)
  37. 2007Tokyo SerendipityJunda Atsuko
  38. 2007Genius Party
  39. 2007The Insects Unlisted in the EncyclopediaSayoko
  40. 2006Umi de no hanashiKaori
  41. 2006BabelChieko
  42. 2006Arch AngelsNobuko Sakurai
  43. 2005Funky Forest: The First ContactKikuchi
  44. 2005Portrait of the Wind
  45. 2004The Motive
  46. 2004Survive Style 5+
  47. 2004The Taste of TeaWaitress At Noodle Shop
  48. 200469
  49. 2003Age 17Hitomi
  50. 2003Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No NameNo. 51
  51. 2002The Phantom of August
  52. 2001Hole in the SkyTaeko
  53. 2000By Player
  54. 1999Will to Live
  55. 1997School Ghost Story F