Yoshino Kimura

Yoshino Kimura is a Japanese actress and singer who was born in London and grew up in Setagaya, Tokyo. She became known for playing Chika in Lost Paradise (1997) and Shizuka in Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), and she earned the Japan Academy Awards' Rookie of the Year honor at the 21st ceremony for Shitsurakuen. Her other film work includes the First Blind Man's Wife in Blindness (2008), and she played Kazusa Monzen and Aoi Monzen in Orochi: Blood (2008). On television, she appeared in one installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror and took the title part in the 2007 TV Asahi movie Teresa Teng Monogatari. She also provided the Japanese voice of Master Tigress in Kung Fu Panda, and returned for Kung Fu Panda 2, while her video game work includes Claire Folley in Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.