Rinko Kikuchi
Born: 1981-01-06 in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2025
- The Hot Spot as Masako Umemoto
- Uso ga Uso de Uso wa Uso da as Mitsuko Omori
2024
- Trespassers as Tanaka Akiko
- Who's Gone as Terada
- Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out as Shosenkyo Reiko
2023
- Yoko as Yoko
- In Love and Deep Water as Aina Horikawa
- Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter as Kitashiro Urara
2022
- Tokyo Vice as Eimi Maruyama
- What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? as Colonel Sen Masago
- PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit as Tatsuki Samejima
- Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team as Machiko Aiba
2021
- Invasion as Hinata Murai
2020
2019
- We Are Little Zombies as Yuko Ibu
- Aging Police / Resurrection Special
- I'm still here ... (Screenplay)
- A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team– as Aiba Machiko
2018
- Pacific Rim: Uprising as Mako Mori
- Miss Sherlock as Mitsuki Kurata
- Weakest Beast as Kureha Tachibana
2016
- Westworld as Akane
- Terra Formars as Asuka Moriki
2015
- Dear Deer as Onlooker
- To Give a Dream as Mikiko Abe
- Endless Night as Allaka
2014
- Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out as Reiko Shosenkyo（昇仙峡 玲子）
- Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter as Kumiko
- Last Summer as Naomi
- Gu Gu the Cat as Chikako
2013
- Pacific Rim as Mako Mori
- 47 Ronin as Witch
- The Frame as Mako Mori
2012
- It's Getting Late as Anna
2011
- Love Strikes! as Naoko Hayashida
- At River's Edge as Tazu
- The Warped Forest
2010
- Norwegian Wood as Naoko
- Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
- 42 One Dream Rush
- Shanghai as Sumiko (uncredited)
- Love Strikes! as Naoko
2009
- Map of the Sounds of Tokyo as Ryu
- Assault Girls as Lucifer
- Sideways as Mina Parker
2008
- The Sky Crawlers as Suito Kusanagi (voice)
- The Brothers Bloom as Bang Bang
- Kill as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
2007
- Liar Game as Ryo Katsuragi
- Tokyo Serendipity as Junda Atsuko
- The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia as Sayoko
- Genius Party
- Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
2006
- Babel as Chieko
- Arch Angels as Nobuko Sakurai
- Umi de no hanashi as Kaori
2005
2004
- The Taste of Tea as Waitress At Noodle Shop
- 69
- The Motive
- Tori
- Making-of１７才
- Survive Style 5+
2003
- A Forest with No Name as No. 51
- Age 17 as Hitomi
2001
- Churasan as Maiko Murayama
- Hole in the Sky as Taeko