Rinko Kikuchi
Biography
Rinko Kikuchi is a Japanese actress who was spotted by a talent agent at 15 in the Laforet Harajuku shopping mall. She began acting in 1999, credited under her birth name, in Kaneto Shindo's Will to Live, and went on to appear in The Taste of Tea (2004), which was selected for Cannes. Her role as a deaf teenage girl in Babel (2006) earned her international attention and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was the first Japanese actress in 50 years to be nominated, and she won a National Board of Review breakthrough award and a Gotham Independent Film Award. Her English-language work includes The Brothers Bloom (2008), 47 Ronin (2013) and Pacific Rim (2013). She starred in Norwegian Wood (2010), which competed at Venice, and her work in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) brought her a Best Female Lead nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards. She also appeared in Tokyo Vice as Emi Maruyama.
45years old
Turns 46 on January 6in 85 days
- Born Hadano
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- 菊地 百合子 (birth name)Also credited as Yuriko Kikuchi
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 19 years2004 to 2023
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Behind the award
Kikuchi tied with Jennifer Hudson for the National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance, and she also earned the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor.
A first
Kikuchi's first full English-language feature was Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom, in which her main character speaks only three words.
Languages
Kikuchi appeared in Pacific Rim in 2013. Her English had gotten better because she watched the American television series The Voice.
First role
Under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi, Rinko Kikuchi first appeared on screen in 1999. Her debut came in Will to Live, a film directed by Kaneto Shindo.
Rinko Kikuchi movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Katsuhito Ishii directed two of these films, Mamoru Oshii two. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Tadanobu Asano's page
Ryô Kase's page
Burn Gorman's page
Charlie Day's page
Ken'ichi Matsuyama's page
Hideaki Anno's page
Katsuhito IshiiDirector, 2 films, 2004 to 2005
All films by Mamoru Oshii
Also two films together2 more actors
- Ikki TodorokiFunky Forest: The First Contact (2005) and The Taste of Tea (2004)
- Maya SuzunoFunky Forest: The First Contact (2005) and The Taste of Tea (2004)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Rinko Kikuchi's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.0 billion
8 of the 12 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 12 films: 8 worldwide figure; 4 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 4Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$411M40.4% of the total
- 2$290M28.5% of the total
- 3$152M14.9% of the total
- 4$135M13.3% of the total
- 5$18M1.7% of the total
- 6$5.8M0.6% of the total
- 7$5.5M0.5% of the total
- 8$740K0.1% of the total
