Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1981-01-06 (44 years old)

Place of Birth

Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan

Also Known As

Yuriko Kikuchi
기쿠치 린코
菊地百合子
Kikucsi Rinko
菊地凛子
رینکو کیکوچی

Rinko Kikuchi

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.

Known For

6.9%

Pacific Rim

Jul 11, 2013

8.0%

Westworld

Oct 2, 2016

6.1%

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Mar 21, 2018

6.2%

47 Ronin

Dec 6, 2013

7.2%

Babel

Oct 26, 2006

7.2%

Invasion

Oct 21, 2021

6.6%

The Brothers Bloom

Sep 9, 2008

7.9%

Tokyo Vice

Apr 7, 2022

6.6%

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Nov 13, 2014

6.1%

Terra Formars

Apr 29, 2016

6.4%

Norwegian Wood

Sep 30, 2010

7.2%

Survive Style 5+

Sep 25, 2004

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Acting

2025

The Hot Spot as Masako Umemoto

2024		That Person Disappeared as Terada
2024		Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out as Shosenkyo Reiko
2024		Trespassers as Tanaka Akiko

2023		In Love and Deep Water as Aina Horikawa
2023		Yoko as Yoko
2023		Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter as Kitashiro Urara

2022		PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit as Tatsuki Samejima
2022		Tokyo Vice as Eimi Maruyama
2022		Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team as Machiko Aiba
2022		What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? as Colonel Sen Masago

2021

Invasion as Hinata Murai

2020

The Dancing Kettle

2019		A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team– as Aiba Machiko
2019		Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019		We Are Little Zombies as Yuko Ibu

2018		Weakest Beast as Kureha Tachibana
2018		Pacific Rim: Uprising as Mako Mori

2017		Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
2017		A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake as Etsuko

2016		Westworld as Akane
2016		Terra Formars as Asuka Moriki

2015		Endless Night as Allaka
2015		Dear Deer as Onlooker
2015		To Give a Dream as Mikiko Abe

2014		Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter as Kumiko
2014		Last Summer as Naomi
2014		Gu Gu the Cat as Chikako
2014		Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out as Reiko Shosenkyo（昇仙峡玲子）

2013		47 Ronin as Witch
2013		Pacific Rim as Mako Mori
2013		The Frame as Mako Mori

2012

It's Getting Late as Anna

2011		The Warped Forest
2011		Love Strikes! as Naoko Hayashida
2011		At River's Edge as Tazu

2010		Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
2010		Norwegian Wood as Naoko
2010		42 One Dream Rush
2010		Love Strikes! as Naoko
2010		Shanghai as Sumiko (uncredited)

2009		Assault Girls as Lucifer
2009		Map of the Sounds of Tokyo as Ryu
2009		Sideways as Mina Parker

2008		Kill as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")
2008		The Brothers Bloom as Bang Bang
2008		The Sky Crawlers as Suito Kusanagi (voice)

2007		Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
2007		Tokyo Serendipity as Junda Atsuko
2007		Genius Party
2007		Baby Blue as Hazuki
2007		The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia as Sayoko
2007		LIAR GAME as Ryo Katsuragi

2006		Umi de no hanashi as Kaori
2006		Babel as Chieko
2006		Arch Angels as Nobuko Sakurai
2006		Time Limit Investigator

2005		Funky Forest: The First Contact as Kikuchi
2005		Portrait of the Wind

2004		The Motive
2004		Survive Style 5+
2004		The Taste of Tea as Waitress At Noodle Shop
2004		69
2004		Tori
2004		Making-of１７才

2003		Age 17 as Hitomi
2003		A Forest with No Name as No. 51

2002		The Phantom of August
2002		The Private Detective Mike

2001		Hole in the Sky as Taeko
2001		Churasan as Maiko Murayama

2000

By Player

1999

Will to Live

1997

School Ghost Story F

Directing

2010

42 One Dream Rush as Director

Production

2014

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter as Executive Producer

Writing

2019

I'm still here as Screenplay