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
Complete Filmography

WHO'S GONE
2024
as Terada
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...

Trespassers
2024
as Tanaka Akiko
Three unlikely thieves break into a mansion looking for the cash they believe its owner is hiding, only to encounter unexpected complications.

In Love and Deep Water
2023
as Aina Horikawa
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 ...

Yoko
2023
as Yoko
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...

Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter
2023
as Kitashiro Urara
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...

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
2022
as Colonel Sen Masago
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...

The Dancing Kettle
2020
A mysterious package arrives, shape shifting ensues and rescuer is rewarded her kindness

Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019

We Are Little Zombies
2019
as Yuko Ibu
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...

I'm still here
2019
Screenplay
Wpc. 15th anniversary short movie

Pacific Rim: Uprising
2018
as Mako Mori
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...

Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
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...
A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake
2017
as Etsuko
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 th...

Terra Formars
2016
as Asuka Moriki
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...

Endless Night
2015
as Allaka
Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of ...

Dear Deer
2015
as Onlooker
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...

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
2014
as Kumiko
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...

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
2014
Executive Producer
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...

Last Summer
2014
as Naomi
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...

47 Ronin
2013
as Witch
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and ...

Pacific Rim
2013
as Mako Mori
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...

It's Getting Late
2012
as Anna
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...

The Warped Forest
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...

Love Strikes!
2011
as Naoko Hayashida
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...

At River's Edge
2011
as Tazu
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...

Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
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...

Norwegian Wood
2010
as Naoko
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...

42 One Dream Rush
2010
Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known f...

Rinko K. in 42 Sec. By Rinko K.
2010
Short film by Rinko Kikuchi. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.

42 One Dream Rush
2010
Director
Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known f...

Rinko K. in 42 Sec. By Rinko K.
2010
Director
Short film by Rinko Kikuchi. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.

Shanghai
2010
as Sumiko (uncredited)
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...

Assault Girls
2009
as Lucifer
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...

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
2009
as Ryu
A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.

Sideways
2009
as Mina Parker
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country. Remake of the 2004 film 'Sideways'.

Kill
2008
as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
Four segments by four different Directors. Kiriko (Takanori Tsujimoto), The Children’s Samurai (Kenta Fukasaku), The Firing Range (Makoto Tahara), and...

The Brothers Bloom
2008
as Bang Bang
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 ...

The Sky Crawlers
2008
as Suito Kusanagi (voice)
Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last, becaus...

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007
as Self
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Tokyo Serendipity
2007
as Junda Atsuko
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...

Genius Party
2007
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s i...

Baby Blue
2007
as Hazuki
"What if we just forget about today or the future" A phrase that gives start to a small adventure of two young students, to go anywhere they can in ju...

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
2007
as Sayoko
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...

Umi de no hanashi
2006
as Kaori
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 ...

Babel
2006
as Chieko
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Arch Angels
2006
as Nobuko Sakurai
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...

Funky Forest: The First Contact
2005
as Kikuchi
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair...

Portrait of the Wind
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 h...

The Motive
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...

Survive Style 5+
2004
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

The Taste of Tea
2004
as Waitress At Noodle Shop
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...

69
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...
Tori
2004
Anthology film directed by Tadanobu Asano.

Making-of17才
2004
Behind-the-scenes footage of Houka Kinoshita's film 17才 (Age 17).

Age 17
2003
as Hitomi
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...

A Forest with No Name
2003
as No. 51
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...

The Phantom of August
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...

Hole in the Sky
2001
as Taeko
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...

By Player
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...

Will to Live
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...

School Ghost Story 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.