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
2026
- Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! as Haru
- Uso ga Uso de Uso wa Uso da as Mitsuko Omori
2025
- The Hot Spot as Masako Umemoto
2024
- Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out as Shosenkyo Reiko
- That Person Has Disappeared as Terada
- Trespassers as Tanaka Akiko
2023
- In Love and Deep Water as Aina Horikawa
- Yoko as Yoko
- Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter as Kitashiro Urara
2022
- Tokyo Vice as Eimi Maruyama
- PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit as Tatsuki Samejima
- Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team as Machiko Aiba
- What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? as Colonel Sen Masago
2021
- Invasion as Hinata Murai
2020
2019
- A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team– as Aiba Machiko
- We Are Little Zombies as Yuko Ibu
- Aging Police / Resurrection Special
- I'm still here ... (Screenplay)
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
- To Give a Dream as Mikiko Abe
- Endless Night as Allaka
- Dear Deer as Onlooker
2014
- Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out as Reiko Shosenkyo
- Gu Gu the Cat as Chikako
- Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter as Kumiko
- Last Summer as Naomi
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
- The Warped Forest
- At River's Edge as Tazu
2010
- Norwegian Wood as Naoko
- Shanghai as Sumiko (uncredited)
- Love Strikes! as Naoko
- 42 One Dream Rush
- Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
2009
- Assault Girls as Lucifer
- Sideways as Mina Parker
- Map of the Sounds of Tokyo as Ryu
2008
- The Sky Crawlers as Suito Kusanagi (voice)
- The Brothers Bloom as Bang Bang
- Kill as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
2007
- ライアーゲーム as Ryo Katsuragi
- The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia as Sayoko
- Genius Party
- Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
- Tokyo Serendipity as Junda Atsuko
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
- Survive Style 5+
- 69
- The Motive
- Making-of１７才
- Tori
2003
- Age 17 as Hitomi
- A Forest with No Name as No. 51
2001
- Churasan as Maiko Murayama
- Hole in the Sky as Taeko