Rinko Kikuchi
Birthday
1981/01/06 (44 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Also know as
Yuriko Kikuchi , 기쿠치 린코, 菊地百合子, Kikucsi Rinko, 菊地 凛子
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.
Acting
(2006) Babel
as Chieko
(2005) Funky Forest: The First Contact
as Kikuchi
(2020) The Dancing Kettle
as ---
(2008) The Brothers Bloom
as Bang Bang
(2023) Yoko
as Yoko
(2007) Genius Party
as ---
(2009) Assault Girls
as Lucifer
(2023) Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter
as Kitashiro Urara
(2008) The Sky Crawlers
as Suito Kusanagi (voice)
(2008) Kill
as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
(2013) 47 Ronin
as Witch
(2009) Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
as Ryu
(2013) Pacific Rim
as Mako Mori
(2001) Hole in the Sky
as Taeko
(2010) Norwegian Wood
as Naoko
(2011) The Warped Forest
as ---
(2009) Sideways
as Mina Parker
(2007) Tokyo Serendipity
as Junda Atsuko
(2019) Aging Police / Resurrection Special
as ---
(2004) The Taste of Tea
as Waitress At Noodle Shop
(2022) What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
as Colonel Sen Masago
(2023) In Love and Deep Water
as Aina Horikawa
(2014) Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
as Kumiko
(2004) Making-of１７才
as ---
(2014) Last Summer
as Naomi
(2024) Trespassers
as Tanaka Akiko
(2003) A Forest with No Name
as No. 51
(2006) Arch Angels
as Nobuko Sakurai
(2007) The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
as Sayoko
(2005) Portrait of the Wind
as ---
(2004) Tori
as ---
(2015) Endless Night
as Allaka
(2003) Age 17
as Hitomi
(2007) Baby Blue
as Hazuki
(2011) At River's Edge
as Tazu
(2015) Dear Deer
as Onlooker
(2004) 69
as ---
(2016) Terra Formars
as Asuka Moriki
(2010) 42 One Dream Rush
as ---
(2010) Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
as ---
(2018) Pacific Rim: Uprising
as Mako Mori
(2017) A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake
as Etsuko
(2011) Love Strikes!
as Naoko Hayashida
(2017) Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
as ---
(2006) Umi de no hanashi
as Kaori
(2019) We Are Little Zombies
as Yuko Ibu
(2004) Survive Style 5+
as ---
(2012) It's Getting Late
as Anna
(2002) The Phantom of August
as ---
(1999) Will to Live
as ---
(2000) By Player
as ---
(2010) Shanghai
as Sumiko (uncredited)
(2004) The Motive
as ---
(2024) That Person Disappeared
as Terada
(1997) School Ghost Story F
as ---
(2007) Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
as Self
(2014) Gu Gu the Cat
as Chikako
(2001) Churasan
as Maiko Murayama
(2006) Time Limit Investigator
as ---
(2010) Love Strikes!
as Naoko
(2002) The Private Detective Mike
as ---
(2021) Invasion
as Hinata Murai
(2007) LIAR GAME
as Ryo Katsuragi
(2022) Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team
as Machiko Aiba
(2015) To Give a Dream
as Mikiko Abe
(2016) Westworld
as Akane
(2018) Weakest Beast
as Kureha Tachibana
(2013) The Frame
as Mako Mori
(2022) PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
as Tatsuki Samejima
(2024) Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
as Shosenkyo Reiko
(2014) Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
as Reiko Shosenkyo（昇仙峡 玲子）
(2019) A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team–
as Aiba Machiko
(2022) Tokyo Vice
as Eimi Maruyama
(2025) Hot Spot
as ---