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Rinko Kikuchi
Born: 6th Jan 1981 Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 76
Film: 56 (74%)
Television: 20 (26%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Horror, Family, Animation, Music, Western, News, History, War
Filmography
2026
Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back t ... view
Character:
Haru
Jan 2026 (first aired)
Haunted by lies and unable to trust anyone, Omori Mitsuko faces a Christmas Eve that turns a struggling izakaya into the center of unexpected chaos. ... view
Character:
Mitsuko Omori (4 ep.)
Jan 2025 (first aired)
Kiyomi Endo is a single mother working at a business hotel near Mount Fuji whose life takes an unexpected twist after an encounter with an alien. ... view
Character:
Masako Umemoto (10 ep.)
Original title: あの人が消えた
2024
Set in an apartment building where many people are rumored to disappear one after another, the story begins when Maruko, a young delivery worker, acci ... view
Character:
Terada
Apr 2024 (first aired)
Every day, bank branches encounter various problems like missing money, information leaks, loan problems & breach of duties. Hanasaki Mai's job is to ... view
Character:
Shosenkyo Reiko (10 ep.)
Original title: 侵入者たちの晩餐
2024
Three unlikely thieves break into a mansion looking for the cash they believe its owner is hiding, only to encounter unexpected complications. ... view
Character:
Tanaka Akiko
Original title: クレイジークルーズ
2023
On a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross paths as they try to uncover a murder-mystery that occurs ... view
Character:
Aina Horikawa
Original title: 658km、陽子の旅
2023
A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, af ... view
Character:
Yoko
Original title: 生理のおじさんとその娘
2023
Mitsuhashi Yukio is a passionate PR man for a sanitary product manufacturer. A single father, he is raising his two children, a daughter in high schoo ... view
Character:
Kitashiro Urara
Oct 2022 (first aired)
Takeshiro Shikota is a 27-year-old pediatrician in Hokkaido, Japan. He was born and raised in Hokkaido. One day, Takeshiro is transferred to the newly ... view
Character:
Tatsuki Samejima (11 ep.)
Apr 2022 (first aired)
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice pol ... view
Character:
Eimi Maruyama (18 ep.)
Feb 2022 (first aired)
Takano has been transferred to the Public Security Department, which is considered to be an elite among the Japanese police. A murder of a ruling part ... view
Character:
Machiko Aiba (10 ep.)
Original title: 大怪獣のあとしまつ
2022
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and b ... view
Character:
Colonel Sen Masago
Oct 2021 (first aired)
Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across t ... view
Character:
Hinata Murai (6 ep.)
2020
A mysterious package arrives, shape shifting ensues and rescuer is rewarded her kindness ... view
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Nov 2019 (first aired)
Tōko Kisaragi is a detective in the Investigation 1 Section 11 of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Her senior, Detective Hideaki Takano, has ... view
Character:
Aiba Machiko (6 ep.)
Original title: WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES
2019
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of thei ... view
Character:
Yuko Ibu
Oct 2018 (first aired)
Seemingly perfect from the outside, Shinkai Akira was exhausted from worrying too much about how to be perfect. Nemoto Kousei is amicable and popular ... view
Character:
Kureha Tachibana (10 ep.)
Apr 2018 (first aired)
Sherlock has a peculiar character flaw. She does not open her heart to strangers. She is Japanese, but was born in Britain. She now works as an invest ... view
Character:
Mitsuki Kurata (1 ep.)
2018
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger progr ... view
Character:
Mako Mori
2017
In a distant future, humans make the switch to android life. They abolish 'flaws' such as complicated human needs and traits such as the ability to po ... view
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2017
Etsuko (Rinko Kikuchi) was given the post to take charge in the launch of a web media site which specifically deals with the theme “the streets and ... view
Character:
Etsuko
Oct 2016 (first aired)
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past ... view
Character:
Akane (2 ep.)
Original title: テラフォーマーズ
2016
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on it ... view
Character:
Asuka Moriki
Original title: Nadie quiere la noche
2015
Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of ... view
Character:
Allaka
Original title: ディアーディアー
2015
When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain vill ... view
Character:
Onlooker
May 2015 (first aired)
The Abe family consists of French Toma, his Japanese wife Mikiko and their beautiful daughter Yuko. They appear like the perfect family. However, thin ... view
Character:
Mikiko Abe (4 ep.)
2014
Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a sce ... view
Character:
Kumiko
2014
A yacht lies at anchor in a bay off the Sicilian coast. Naomi, a young Japanese woman, has four days to leave her son with a lasting memory of her bef ... view
Character:
Naomi
Oct 2014 (first aired)
About a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living, and doing her work from home job. One day when forced ... view
Character:
Chikako (1 ep.)
Apr 2014 (first aired)
Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice about pointing out her boss' mistakes. Her job is to ... view
Character:
Reiko Shosenkyo (10 ep.)
2013
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master ... view
Character:
Witch
2013
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pac ... view
Character:
Mako Mori
Apr 2013 (first aired)
A journey through the world of classic and contemporary cinema. ... view
Character:
Mako Mori (1 ep.)
2012
In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives. The camera follows each as they wind down their working days, their fou ... view
Character:
Anna
Original title: あさっての森
2011
Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird gre ... view
Character:
Original title: モテキ
2011
Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffi ... view
Character:
Naoko Hayashida
Original title: 小川の辺
2011
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has ... view
Character:
Tazu
Original title: さよならロビンソンクルーソー
2010
Keisuke is a poor member of the trash every day with his meager income to support he's carrying debt girlfriend. At the hospital keisuke girlfriend ha ... view
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Original title: ノルウェイの森
2010
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outg ... view
Character:
Naoko
2010
An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 4 ... view
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Jul 2010 (first aired)
Moriyama plays a temp worker who has never had any luck with women. One day, he suddenly starts getting invitations from several beautiful women, and ... view
Character:
Naoko (12 ep.)
2010
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he un ... view
Character:
Sumiko (uncredited)
Original title: アサルトガールズ
2009
Three women and one man - with an assortment of weaponry - wage war against giant mutant sandwhales in a barren digital landscape, all to achieve poin ... view
Character:
Lucifer
2009
A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill. ... view
Character:
Ryu
Original title: サイドウェイズ
2009
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country. ... view
Character:
Mina Parker
Original title: 斬～KILL～
2008
Four segments by four different Directors. Kiriko (Takanori Tsujimoto), The Children’s Samurai (Kenta Fukasaku), The Firing Range (Makoto Tahara), a ... view
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(segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
2008
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take ... view
Character:
Bang Bang
Original title: スカイ・クロラ
2008
Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last, becaus ... view
Character:
Suito Kusanagi (voice)
2007
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical chall ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: 恋するマドリ
2007
Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbo ... view
Character:
Junda Atsuko
Original title: 図鑑に載ってない虫
2007
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the d ... view
Character:
Sayoko
Apr 2007 (first aired)
Nao Kanzaki is a college student who is known for her honesty and naivete. One day, she receives a black postcard indicating that she has been selecte ... view
Character:
Ryo Katsuragi (9 ep.)
Original title: 海でのはなし。
2006
Kaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She tries to confide in Dr. Nishijima, a lecturer that she ... view
Character:
Kaori
2006
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families. ... view
Character:
Chieko
Original title: 笑う大天使（ミカエル)
2006
Every high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled on an impossibly pretty and strangely remote Japanese i ... view
Character:
Nobuko Sakurai
Original title: ナイスの森〜The First Contact〜
2005
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair ... view
Character:
Kikuchi
Original title: 誰がために
2005
Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal ... view
Character:
Original title: 理由
2004
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens ... view
Character:
Original title: SURVIVE STYLE5+
2004
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances. ... view
Character:
Original title: 茶の味
2004
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project ... view
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Waitress At Noodle Shop
Original title: 69 sixty nine
2004
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, an ... view
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Character:
Original title: １７才・ メイキング
2004
Behind-the-scenes footage of Houka Kinoshita's film １７才 (Age 17). ... view
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Original title: 17才
2003
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester, sh ... view
Character:
Hitomi
Original title: 私立探偵 濱マイク 名前のない森
2003
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest ... view
Character:
No. 51
Original title: 八月の幻
2002
Mamoru works as an illustrator in Tokyo. He and his girlfriend decide to visit his hometown of Onomichi. It is a bitter-sweet homecoming, for Mamoru h ... view
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Jul 2002 (first aired)
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for h ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 空の穴
2001
The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work ou ... view
Character:
Taeko
Apr 2001 (first aired)
The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, th ... view
Character:
Maiko Murayama (156 ep.)
Original title: 三文役者
2000
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the ca ... view
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Original title: 生きたい
1999
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for ... view
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Jan 1999 (first aired)
Yuko (Kanako Enomoto), always dressed in flashy, trend-setting fashion, looks carefree and bold at first glance. But in reality, she has very few fema ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Original title: 学校の怪談F
1997
A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. ... view
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