Rinko Kikuchi

Known for: Acting
Born: January 6, 1981, Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Movies: 60

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.0

Pacific Rim

2013

6.1

Pacific Rim: Uprising

2018

6.2

47 Ronin

2013

7.2

Babel

2006

6.6

The Brothers Bloom

2009

6.6

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

2014

6.1

Terra Formars

2016

6.4

Norwegian Wood

2010

7.3

Survive Style 5+

2004

6.1

Shanghai

2010

Filmography

2026	Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!	Haru
2026	いのこりぐみ
2025	Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie	Ayvil Suzuki
2024	That Person Has Disappeared	Terada
2024	Trespassers	Tanaka Akiko
2023	In Love and Deep Water	Aina Horikawa
2023	Yoko	Yoko
2023	Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter	Kitashiro Urara
2022	What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?	Colonel Sen Masago
2020	The Dancing Kettle
2019	Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019	We Are Little Zombies	Yuko Ibu
2018	Pacific Rim: Uprising	Mako Mori
2017	Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
2017	A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake	Etsuko
2016	Terra Formars	Asuka Moriki
2015	Endless Night	Allaka
2015	Dear Deer	Onlooker
2014	Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter	Kumiko
2014	Last Summer	Naomi
2013	47 Ronin	Witch
2013	Pacific Rim	Mako Mori
2012	It's Getting Late	Anna
2011	The Warped Forest
2011	Love Strikes!	Naoko Hayashida
2011	At River's Edge	Tazu
2010	Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
2010	Norwegian Wood	Naoko
2010	42 One Dream Rush
2010	Shanghai	Sumiko (uncredited)
2009	Assault Girls	Lucifer
2009	Map of the Sounds of Tokyo	Ryu
2009	Sideways	Mina Parker
2009	The Brothers Bloom	Bang Bang
2008	Kill	(segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
2008	The Sky Crawlers	Suito Kusanagi (voice)
2007	Common Ground: Under Construction Notes	Self
2007	Tokyo Serendipity	Junda Atsuko
2007	Genius Party
2007	The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia	Sayoko
2006	Umi de no hanashi	Kaori
2006	Babel	Chieko
2006	Arch Angels	Nobuko Sakurai
2005	Funky Forest: The First Contact	Kikuchi
2005	Portrait of the Wind
2004	The Motive
2004	Survive Style 5+
2004	The Taste of Tea	Waitress At Noodle Shop
2004	69
2004	Tori
2004	Making-of１７才
2003	Age 17	Hitomi
2003	Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name	No. 51
2002	The Phantom of August
2001	Hole in the Sky	Taeko
2000	By Player
1999	Will to Live
1997	School Ghost Story F

Directing, Writing & Producing

2019	I'm still here	Screenplay
2010	42 One Dream Rush	Director

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