Rinko Kikuchi

Acting · Born 1981-01-06 · Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan

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

• Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026)
• いのこりぐみ (2026)
• Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie (2025)
• Trespassers (2024)
• That Person Has Disappeared (2024)
• Yoko (2023)
• Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter (2023)
• In Love and Deep Water (2023)
• What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? (2022)
• The Dancing Kettle (2020)
• Aging Police / Resurrection Special (2019)
• We Are Little Zombies (2019)
• Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
• A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake (2017)
• Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi (2017)
• Terra Formars (2016)
• Endless Night (2015)
• Dear Deer (2015)
• Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
• Last Summer (2014)
• 47 Ronin (2013)
• Pacific Rim (2013)
• It's Getting Late (2012)
• The Warped Forest (2011)