Rinko Kikuchi

ActorProducerWriterDirector Jan 6 (age 45) Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan 1997–2026 (29 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

Pacific Rim

Mako Mori

Film

Babel

Chieko

Film

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Mako Mori

Film

47 Ronin

Witch

Film

Tokyo Vice

Eimi Maruyama

Film

The Brothers Bloom

Bang Bang

Film

Survive Style 5+

7.2 2004

Film

The Taste of Tea

Waitress At Noodle Shop

Filmography

Acting (77)

Movies (56)

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

2026

as Haru

Trespassers

2024

as Tanaka Akiko

7.2

That Person Has Disappeared

2024

as Terada

7.0

In Love and Deep Water

as Aina Horikawa

Yoko

as Yoko

Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter

2023

as Kitashiro Urara

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?

2022

as Colonel Sen Masago

4.5

The Dancing Kettle

2020

Aging Police / Resurrection Special

2019

6.0

We Are Little Zombies

2019

as Yuko Ibu

6.7

Pacific Rim: Uprising

2018

as Mako Mori

6.1

Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi

2017

4.0

A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake

2017

as Etsuko

Terra Formars

as Asuka Moriki

Endless Night

as Allaka

Dear Deer

as Onlooker

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

as Kumiko

Last Summer

as Naomi

Pacific Rim

as Mako Mori

47 Ronin

as Witch

It's Getting Late

as Anna

Love Strikes!

as Naoko Hayashida

The Warped Forest

At River's Edge

as Tazu

Norwegian Wood

as Naoko

Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe

2010

Shanghai

2010

as Sumiko (uncredited)

42 One Dream Rush

Sideways

as Mina Parker

Assault Girls

as Lucifer

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

as Ryu

The Brothers Bloom

as Bang Bang

The Sky Crawlers

as Suito Kusanagi (voice)

6.7

Kill

2008

as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")

4.9

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia

as Sayoko

Genius Party

Tokyo Serendipity

as Junda Atsuko

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

as Self

Babel

as Chieko

Arch Angels

as Nobuko Sakurai

Umi de no hanashi

as Kaori

Funky Forest: The First Contact

as Kikuchi

Portrait of the Wind

Making-of１７才

The Taste of Tea

as Waitress At Noodle Shop

The Motive

Tori

Survive Style 5+

Age 17

as Hitomi

A Forest with No Name

2003

as No. 51

4.7

The Phantom of August

Hole in the Sky

as Taeko

By Player

Will to Live

School Ghost Story F

Television (21)

Uso ga Uso de Uso wa Uso da

2026

as Mitsuko Omori

The Hot Spot

2025

as Masako Umemoto

8.2

Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out

as Shosenkyo Reiko

Tokyo Vice

as Eimi Maruyama

PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

2022

as Tatsuki Samejima

7.0

Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team

2022

as Machiko Aiba

Invasion

2021

as Hinata Murai

7.1

A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team–

as Aiba Machiko

Miss Sherlock

as Mitsuki Kurata

Weakest Beast

as Kureha Tachibana

Westworld

as Akane

To Give a Dream

as Mikiko Abe

Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out

as Reiko Shosenkyo

Gu Gu the Cat

as Chikako

The Frame

as Mako Mori

Love Strikes!

as Naoko

Liar Game

as Ryo Katsuragi

Time Limit Investigator

2006

6.7

The Private Detective Mike

Churasan

as Maiko Murayama

Kawaii Dake ja Dame Kashira?

1999

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

2026

Executive Producer

I'm still here

2019

Screenplay

7.0

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Executive Producer

42 One Dream Rush

Director