Kie Kitano
Born: 1991-03-15 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kie Kitano (北乃きい, Kitano Kii, born March 15, 1991) is a Japanese Actress, singer, TV host, and former gravure idol. She entered the entertainment industry in 2005 at the age of 14 by winning the Miss Magazine Grand Prix Award, marking her as the youngest winner in the event's history. She made her acting debut with: 恋する日曜日「夏の記憶」BS-i drama broadcasted in 2005. She starred on "Yubisaki", directed by Isao Yukisada, "Mother at Fourteen", and NHK drama "Junjo Kirari" in 2006. She did her first lead role in 2007 with "Happy Dining Table" (also known as Kōfuku na Shokutaku) directed by Takashi Komatsu, in the same year, she starred in the Fuji TV drama "Life", an very successful drama, which helped elevate her reputation as a talented and highly capable young actress, Kitano won the 4th Annual TV Navi Drama Award for Best New Actress and the 54th Television Drama Academy Award for Best Newcomer, since then, she starred in various dramas and movies.
Filmography
2026
- A Moonlight Nights Passing
- Goodbye Noir as Sakura Konishi
- Unmarried Fraud: The Side of Him I Didn't Know as Sayaka Dojima
- 沖晴くんの涙を殺して as Hina Akasaka
2025
2024
- Usotoki Rhetoric
- Extreme Married Couple as Aki Hokuto
- Top Swords Couple as Yui Yamamoto
2023
- Burn the House Down as Claire
- Victory Court Ceremony as Saotome Hana
- Maternity Leave Detective as Akizuki Saki
- Romeo & Juliet as Juliet
- Oshorin
2022
- Goodbye My Dear as Aoki Kaoru
- Ojisan Is Cheering for My Love (In My Brain) as Miyashita Matsuri
- Let’s Go to the Cinema Complex! as Kaori Nakatsuka
- Thy Name as Hisae Aso
- Solitary Gourmet New Year’s Eve Special ~Crab Errand Sure is Tough~ as Kobayashi Mana
2020
2019
- Natsuzora
- A Murder Is Announced as Tachibana Shiori
2017
- Gintama: Mitsuba Arc as Okita Mitsuba
- Goodbye Newspaper
- TAP THE LAST SHOW
- Hashi Monogatari: Konuka Ame as Osumi
2016
2015
- Teacher and Stray Cat as Mayumi Matsukawa
- Double Meaning: Chain Reaction
2014
- 300 Million Yen Robbery as Yuka Kobayashi
- The Tenor - Lirico Spinto as Shinohara Misaki
- Housekeeper the Peeper as Akemi Nakamura
- Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends (Live Action) as Yozora Mikazuki
2013
- Yokohama Story as Nanami Matsuura
- Tenshi wa Mop wo Motte as Kiriko
- Double Meaning: Yes or No? as Akira Mochizuki
- I Hate Tokyo as Natsumi Takahara
- Under the Nagasaki Sky as Kiyomi Kadota
- Kid's Police
- Ken and Mary: The Asian Truck Express as Midori
- 24時間女優－待つ女－ 北乃きい×山本透
2012
- Cleopatra na Onnatachi
- Villain as はるか / 伊藤 冬美
2011
- Double Meaning as Akira Mochizuki
- Love Come as Ryoko
- Happy Together –All About My Dog– as Natsuko
- Toire no kamisama as Kana Uemura
- 虹の向こうへ as 七海
- School!! as Kanoko Takeichi
2010
- Shooting Star as Maria Okada
- Bukatsudo as 小川菜々
- Graduation Song as Yurika Maejima
- The Cicada's Eighth Day
- Beyond the Rainbow as Nanami
- Bandage as Asako Suzuki
- Cheburashka as Masha (voice)
- Still life as Natsumi
- Bushido Sixteen as Sanae Nishogi
2009
- Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life as Sheena (voice)
- Halfway as Hiro Konno
- Kie Kitano - Kitano Furii as Self
2008
- Homeroom on the Beachside as Riku Shirasaki
- Kitaro and the Millennium Curse as Kaede Hiramoto
- Love Fight as Aki Nishimura
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Spring Special
- ツナガルココロ 3 LOVE STORIES
- Postman as Ayumi Kaieda
- Kie Kitano's Diary as Self
2007
- Life as Ayumu Shiiba
- Speed Master as Mahiro Sakurai
- Happy Dining Table as Sawako Nakahara
2006
- Junjo Kirari as Arimori Fueko (young)
- Mother at Fourteen as Kubota Megumi
- Yubisaki as Uta
- Kie Kitano「Oops!」 as Self
2005
1999
- Emergency Room 24 Hours as Chinatsu Kamoi（鴨居 千夏）