Rinko Kikuchi
Birthday: 1981-01-06
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
Babel
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Gui...
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The Dancing Kettle
A mysterious package arrives, shape shifting ensues and rescuer is rewarded her kindness...
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The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios ...
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Yoko
A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, A...
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Genius Party
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standar...
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Assault Girls
Three women and one man - with an assortment of weaponry - wage war against giant mutant sandwhales ...
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Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter
Mitsuhashi Yukio is a passionate PR man for a sanitary product manufacturer. A single father, he is ...
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The Sky Crawlers
Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are ...
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Kill
Four segments by four different Directors. Kiriko (Takanori Tsujimoto), The Children’s Samurai (Kent...
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47 Ronin
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the...
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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill....
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Pacific Rim
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the inv...
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Hole in the Sky
The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfr...
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Norwegian Wood
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko...
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The Warped Forest
Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-gir...
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Sideways
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country....
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Tokyo Serendipity
Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent li...
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The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the g...
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In Love and Deep Water
On a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross paths as...
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that...
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Last Summer
A yacht lies at anchor in a bay off the Sicilian coast. Naomi, a young Japanese woman, has four days...
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Trespassers
Three unlikely thieves break into a mansion looking for the cash they believe its owner is hiding, o...
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A Forest with No Name
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigio...
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Arch Angels
Every high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled on an...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a ...
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Portrait of the Wind
Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take o...
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Endless Night
Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous ...
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Age 17
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls a...
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At River's Edge
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with...
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Dear Deer
When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed...
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69
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. Th...
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Terra Formars
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warmin...
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42 One Dream Rush
An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a ...
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Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
Keisuke is a poor member of the trash every day with his meager income to support he's carrying debt...
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Pacific Rim: Uprising
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindica...
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A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake
Etsuko (Rinko Kikuchi) was given the post to take charge in the launch of a web media site which spe...
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Love Strikes!
Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto doesn't have money, dream...
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Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
In a distant future, humans make the switch to android life. They abolish 'flaws' such as complicate...
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Umi de no hanashi
Kaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She tries...
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We Are Little Zombies
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This i...
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Survive Style 5+
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resul...
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It's Getting Late
In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives. The camera follows ea...
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The Phantom of August
Mamoru works as an illustrator in Tokyo. He and his girlfriend decide to visit his hometown of Onomi...
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Will to Live
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution...
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By Player
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dia...
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Shanghai
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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Who's Gone
Set in an apartment building where many people are rumored to disappear one after another, the story...
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School Ghost Story F
A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Na...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach th...
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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdr...
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