Rinko Kikuchi

Personal Info

Birthday

January 6, 1981

(44 years old)

Place of Birth

Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan

Also Known As

Yuriko Kikuchi

기쿠치 린코

菊地百合子

Kikucsi Rinko

菊地凛子

رینکو کیکوچی

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.

Known For

Invasion

Westworld

Pacific Rim

Tokyo Vice

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out

The Hot Spot

LIAR GAME

Filmography

2024
WHO'S GONE
as Terada
Trespassers
as Tanaka Akiko
2023
In Love and Deep Water
as Aina Horikawa
Yoko
as Yoko
Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter
as Kitashiro Urara
2022
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
as Colonel Sen Masago
2019
We Are Little Zombies
as Yuko Ibu
2018
Pacific Rim: Uprising
as Mako Mori
2017
A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake
as Etsuko
2016
Terra Formars
as Asuka Moriki
2015
Endless Night
as Allaka
Dear Deer
as Onlooker
2014
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
as Kumiko
Last Summer
as Naomi
2013
47 Ronin
as Witch
Pacific Rim
as Mako Mori
2012
It's Getting Late
as Anna
2011
At River's Edge
as Tazu
2010
Norwegian Wood
as Naoko
Shanghai
as Sumiko (uncredited)
2009
Assault Girls
as Lucifer
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
as Ryu
Sideways
as Mina Parker
2008
Kill
as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
The Brothers Bloom
as Bang Bang
The Sky Crawlers
as Suito Kusanagi (voice)
2007
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
as Self
Tokyo Serendipity
as Junda Atsuko
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
as Sayoko
2006
Umi de no hanashi
as Kaori
Babel
as Chieko
Arch Angels
as Nobuko Sakurai
2005
Funky Forest: The First Contact
as Kikuchi
2004
The Taste of Tea
as Waitress At Noodle Shop
2003
Age 17
as Hitomi
A Forest with No Name
as No. 51
2001
Hole in the Sky
as Taeko