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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2007Common Ground: Under Construction Notes — Self