Kie Kitano (北乃きい, Kitano Kii, born March 15, 1991) is a Japanese Actress, singer, TV host, and former gravure idol. She entered the entertainment industry in 2005 at the age of 14 by winning the Miss Magazine Grand Prix Award, marking her as the youngest winner in the event's history. She made her acting debut with: 恋する日曜日「夏の記憶」BS-i drama broadcasted in 2005. She starred on "Yubisaki", directed by Isao Yukisada, "Mother at Fourteen", and NHK drama "Junjo Kirari" in 2006. She did her first lead role in 2007 with "Happy Dining Table" (also known as Kōfuku na Shokutaku) directed by Takashi Komatsu, in the same year, she starred in the Fuji TV drama "Life", an very successful drama, which helped elevate her reputation as a talented and highly capable young actress, Kitano won the 4th Annual TV Navi Drama Award for Best New Actress and the 54th Television Drama Academy Award for Best Newcomer, since then, she starred in various dramas and movies.

Filmography

• A Moonlight Nights Passing
• Goodbye Noir — Sakura Konishi
• 2026Kill Okiharu's Tears — Hina Akasaka
• Unmarried Fraud: The Side of Him I Didn't Know — Sayaka Dojima
• Happiness Comes from Eating, Sleeping and Waiting — Sorihashi Riku
• 2025Samurai Detective Onihei: One Last Wish
• The Winds of Fukushima
• Extreme Married Couple — Aki Hokuto
• 2024Top Swords Couple — Yui Yamamoto
• Usotoki Rhetoric
• Burn the House Down — Claire
• Maternity Leave Detective — Akizuki Saki
• 2023Oshorin
• 2023Romeo & Juliet — Juliet
• Victory Court Ceremony — Saotome Hana
• Goodbye My Dear — Aoki Kaoru
• Let’s Go to the Cinema Complex! — Kaori Nakatsuka
• Ojisan Is Cheering for My Love (In My Brain) — Miyashita Matsuri
• 2022Solitary Gourmet New Year’s Eve Special ~Crab Errand Sure is Tough~ — Kobayashi Mana
• Thy Name — Hisae Aso
• You are Not the Culprit
• 夢の本屋をめぐる冒険
• 2019A Murder Is Announced — Tachibana Shiori
• Natsuzora
• Gintama: Mitsuba Arc — Okita Mitsuba
• Goodbye Newspaper
• 2017Hashi Monogatari: Konuka Ame — Osumi
• 2017TAP THE LAST SHOW — Hana Mori
• Cross Road
• 2015Double Meaning: Chain Reaction
• 2015Teacher and Stray Cat — Mayumi Matsukawa
• 2014300 Million Yen Robbery — Yuka Kobayashi
• 2014Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends (Live Action) — Yozora Mikazuki
• 2014Housekeeper the Peeper — Akemi Nakamura
• 2014The Tenor - Lirico Spinto — Shinohara Misaki
• 201324時間女優－待つ女－ 北乃きい×山本透
• 2013Double Meaning: Yes or No? — Akira Mochizuki
• 2013I Hate Tokyo — Natsumi Takahara
• 2013Ken and Mary: The Asian Truck Express — Midori
• 2013Kid's Police
• Tenshi wa Mop wo Motte — Kiriko
• 2013Under the Nagasaki Sky — Kiyomi Kadota
• 2013Yokohama Story — Nanami Matsuura
• Cleopatra na Onnatachi
• 2012Villain — はるか / 伊藤 冬美
• 2011Double Meaning — Akira Mochizuki
• 2011Happy Together –All About My Dog– — Natsuko
• 2011Love Come — Ryoko
• School!! — Kanoko Takeichi
• 2011Toire no kamisama — Kana Uemura
• 2011虹の向こうへ — 七海
• 2010Bandage — Asako Suzuki
• Beyond the Rainbow — Nanami
• 2010Bushido Sixteen — Sanae Nishogi
• 2010Cheburashka — Masha (voice)
• Graduation Song — Yurika Maejima, Maeshima Yurika
• HANAKAPPA — Theme Song Performance
• Shooting Star — Maria Okada
• 2010Still life — Natsumi
• The Cicada's Eighth Day
• The Club Activity Way — 小川菜々
• 2009Halfway — Hiro Konno
• 2009Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life — Sheena (voice)
• Homeroom on the Beachside — Riku Shirasaki
• 2008Kitaro and the Millennium Curse — Kaede Hiramoto
• 2008Love Fight — Aki Nishimura
• 2008Postman — Ayumi Kaieda
• 2008Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Spring Special
• 2008北乃きいの 「很好!しゃべっチャイナ」 1豫園編
• 2008北乃きいの 「很好!しゃべっチャイナ」 2南京路編
• 2008北乃きいの 「很好!しゃべっチャイナ」 3准海路編
• 2008北乃きいの 「很好!しゃべっチャイナ」 4浦東編
• 2007Connected Hearts: 3 Love Stories
• 2007Happy Dining Table — Sawako Nakahara
• Life — Ayumu Shiiba
• 2007Speed Master — Mahiro Sakurai
• Junjo Kirari — Arimori Fueko (young)
• Mother at Fourteen — Kubota Megumi
• 2006Yubisaki — Uta
• 2005Love on Sunday: Summer Memories — Mika
• 2005Noroi: Hodo Sosa Saizensen Yori
• 2005Phantoms of the PopEra
• Emergency Room 24 Hours — Chinatsu Kamoi（鴨居 千夏）

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2009Kie Kitano - Kitano Furii — Self
• 2008Kie Kitano's Diary — Self
• 2006Kie Kitano「Oops!」 — Self
• 2005Kie Kitano "Miss Magazine" — Self