Rinko Kikuchi
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.
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Acting History
2026
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! as Haru
2025Uso ga Uso de Uso wa Uso da as Mitsuko Omori
2025The Hot Spot as Masako Umemoto
2024Who's Gone as Terada
2024Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out as Shosenkyo Reiko
2024Trespassers as Tanaka Akiko
2023In Love and Deep Water as Aina Horikawa
2023Yoko as Yoko
2023Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter as Kitashiro Urara
2022PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit as Tatsuki Samejima
2022Tokyo Vice as Eimi Maruyama
2022Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team as Machiko Aiba
2022What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? as Colonel Sen Masago
2021Invasion as Hinata Murai
2020The Dancing Kettle
2019A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team– as Aiba Machiko
2019Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019We Are Little Zombies as Yuko Ibu
2018Weakest Beast as Kureha Tachibana
2018Miss Sherlock as Mitsuki Kurata
2018Pacific Rim: Uprising as Mako Mori
2017Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
2017A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake as Etsuko
2016Westworld as Akane
2016Terra Formars as Asuka Moriki
2015Endless Night as Allaka
2015Dear Deer as Onlooker
2015To Give a Dream as Mikiko Abe
2014Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter as Kumiko
2014Last Summer as Naomi
2014Gu Gu the Cat as Chikako
2014Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out as Reiko Shosenkyo（昇仙峡 玲子）
201347 Ronin as Witch
2013Pacific Rim as Mako Mori
2013The Frame as Mako Mori
2012It's Getting Late as Anna
2011The Warped Forest
2011Love Strikes! as Naoko Hayashida
2011At River's Edge as Tazu
2010Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
2010Norwegian Wood as Naoko
201042 One Dream Rush
2010Love Strikes! as Naoko
2010Shanghai as Sumiko (uncredited)
2009Assault Girls as Lucifer
2009Map of the Sounds of Tokyo as Ryu
2009Sideways as Mina Parker
2008Kill as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
2008The Brothers Bloom as Bang Bang
2008The Sky Crawlers as Suito Kusanagi (voice)
2007Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
2007Tokyo Serendipity as Junda Atsuko
2007Genius Party
2007The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia as Sayoko
2007Liar Game as Ryo Katsuragi
2006Umi de no hanashi as Kaori
2006Babel as Chieko
2006Arch Angels as Nobuko Sakurai
2005Funky Forest: The First Contact as Kikuchi
2005Portrait of the Wind
2004The Motive
2004Survive Style 5+
2004The Taste of Tea as Waitress At Noodle Shop
200469
2004Tori
2004Making-of１７才
2003Age 17 as Hitomi
2003A Forest with No Name as No. 51
2002The Phantom of August
2002The Private Detective Mike
2001Hole in the Sky as Taeko
2001Churasan as Maiko Murayama
2000By Player
1999Will to Live
1997School Ghost Story F