Rinko Kikuchi

Rinko Kikuchi

1981-01-06 Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan 61 Credits

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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WHO'S GONE

WHO'S GONE

2024

as Terada

7.5
Acting

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

Trespassers

2024

as Tanaka Akiko

7.4
Acting

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

In Love and Deep Water

2023

as Aina Horikawa

5.6
Acting

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

Yoko

2023

as Yoko

6.0
Acting

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

Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter

2023

as Kitashiro Urara

Acting

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?

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?

2022

as Colonel Sen Masago

4.8
Acting

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

The Dancing Kettle

2020

Acting

A mysterious package arrives, shape shifting ensues and rescuer is rewarded her kindness

Aging Police / Resurrection Special

Aging Police / Resurrection Special

2019

6.0
Acting
We Are Little Zombies

We Are Little Zombies

2019

as Yuko Ibu

6.6
Acting

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

I'm still here

2019

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

Wpc. 15th anniversary short movie

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Pacific Rim: Uprising

2018

as Mako Mori

6.1
Acting

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

Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi

2017

4.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Terra Formars

2016

as Asuka Moriki

6.1
Acting

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

Endless Night

2015

as Allaka

6.0
Acting

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

Dear Deer

Dear Deer

2015

as Onlooker

4.7
Acting

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

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

2014

as Kumiko

6.6
Acting

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

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

2014

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

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

Last Summer

2014

as Naomi

6.0
Acting

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

47 Ronin

2013

as Witch

6.2
Acting

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

Pacific Rim

2013

as Mako Mori

6.9
Acting

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

It's Getting Late

2012

as Anna

5.3
Acting

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

The Warped Forest

2011

4.8
Acting

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!

Love Strikes!

2011

as Naoko Hayashida

7.6
Acting

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

At River's Edge

2011

as Tazu

8.5
Acting

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

Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe

2010

Acting

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

Norwegian Wood

2010

as Naoko

6.4
Acting

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

42 One Dream Rush

2010

Acting

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.

Rinko K. in 42 Sec. By Rinko K.

2010

Acting

Short film by Rinko Kikuchi. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.

42 One Dream Rush

42 One Dream Rush

2010

Director

Directing

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.

Rinko K. in 42 Sec. By Rinko K.

2010

Director

Directing

Short film by Rinko Kikuchi. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.

Shanghai

Shanghai

2010

as Sumiko (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

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

Assault Girls

2009

as Lucifer

4.6
Acting

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

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

2009

as Ryu

5.2
Acting

A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.

Sideways

Sideways

2009

as Mina Parker

4.5
Acting

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

Kill

Kill

2008

as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")

4.9
Acting

Four segments by four different Directors. Kiriko (Takanori Tsujimoto), The Children’s Samurai (Kenta Fukasaku), The Firing Range (Makoto Tahara), and...

The Brothers Bloom

The Brothers Bloom

2008

as Bang Bang

6.6
Acting

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

The Sky Crawlers

2008

as Suito Kusanagi (voice)

6.7
Acting

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

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2007

as Self

10.0
Acting

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

Tokyo Serendipity

Tokyo Serendipity

2007

as Junda Atsuko

5.9
Acting

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

Genius Party

2007

6.5
Acting

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

Baby Blue

2007

as Hazuki

10.0
Acting

"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

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia

2007

as Sayoko

7.0
Acting

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

Umi de no hanashi

2006

as Kaori

Acting

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

Babel

2006

as Chieko

7.2
Acting

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

Arch Angels

Arch Angels

2006

as Nobuko Sakurai

4.8
Acting

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

Funky Forest: The First Contact

2005

as Kikuchi

6.3
Acting

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

Portrait of the Wind

2005

6.5
Acting

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

The Motive

2004

6.4
Acting

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+

Survive Style 5+

2004

7.2
Acting

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

The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea

2004

as Waitress At Noodle Shop

7.5
Acting

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

69

2004

6.2
Acting

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

Acting

Anthology film directed by Tadanobu Asano.

Making-of17才

Making-of17才

2004

Acting

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

Age 17

Age 17

2003

as Hitomi

Acting

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

A Forest with No Name

2003

as No. 51

4.7
Acting

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

The Phantom of August

2002

Acting

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

Hole in the Sky

2001

as Taeko

5.4
Acting

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

By Player

2000

8.0
Acting

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

Will to Live

1999

6.3
Acting

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

School Ghost Story F

1997

1.0
Acting

A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.