Rinko Kikuchi
Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan

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.

Top 10 collaborators

Roles

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

Crew

I'm still here (2019)
Screenplay
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
Executive Producer
42 One Dream Rush (2010)
Director