Kiki Sugino
Kiki Sugino, born as Seo Yeong Hwa, is an actress and producer. Sugino was born in Hiroshima, Japan to Korean parents (Japanese-born Koreans are known in Japan as "Zainichi Koreans"). She made her debut as an actress in Korea in the 2005 film "One Shining Day". Kim Ki Duk cast her in a small role in his 2006 film "Time". Sugino later returned to Japan where she made her acting debut with Tetsuo Shinohara's 2008 film "Clearness". Sugino has gone beyond being only a performer and has become a producer, starting her own company Wa Entertainment and producing her most recent films. Besides Magic and Loss, Sugino has also produced and starred in Tokyo-based Malaysian director Edmund Yeo's short film Exhalation and Koji Fukada's feature Hospitalité, both 2010 films.
Time
as Seo Yeong-hwaConsumed by jealousy, a woman takes an extreme step and undergoes surgery for a new face....
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Time
as Waitress in CafeConsumed by jealousy, a woman takes an extreme step and undergoes surgery for a new face....
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as KumiChihiro is depressed and obsessed with his own mortality. Him and his wife, Yuri (Yoko Mitsuya),...
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Kinki
as Sala AsaiA teacher is sexually involved with an underage student. She visits her father's home and...
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21st Century Girl
as (segment "Anytime, anywhere")21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls....
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Au revoir l'été
as TatsukoAfter failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer...
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Love Mooning
as Ayako MizunoHiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One...
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Kalayaan
as Mermaid 2Julian is a soldier stationed on a remote island in the Philippines. He has finished his three...
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Snow Woman
as Yuki on'naOne snowy night, in a mountain hut, Minokichi, a hunter, sees a snow woman killing his mentor...
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Hospitalité
as NatsukiIn this black comedy the lives of a timid small-time printer and his young wife are turned...
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Town Without Sea
as Sho's MotherIt is a youth film about the boys in their late teens spend before they become adults. Sho and...
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The Intermission
as uncreditedA unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at...
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One Shining Day
as uncreditedEpisode 1. Mie comes to Korea in search for a keepsake, which her grandpa left behind when going...
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Kyoto Elegy
as SatomiKyoto in April. A timid and shy student, Watabe, is struggling to make friends and spending...
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Gunjōiro no, tōrimichi
as Yuika KurataA man, who moved to Tokyo to become a musician, returns to his hometown for the first time in 10...
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Magic and Loss
as KikiA dreamlike drama produced by and starring Sugino Kiki, a rising star in the independent film...
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Exhalation
as NaokoA young woman returns to her birthplace for an ex-classmate's funeral. She and a friend lose...
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CLEARNESS
as SakuraSakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction....
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Short Plays
as uncreditedFootball seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.
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I Want to Be Loved
as TomoyoTen years ago, on an island located near Hiroshima, a seventeen-year-old student named Miyuki...
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Two Rabbits in Osaka
as WomanAn unknown calamity is killing off ninety-percent of mankind. There is no cure, no hope and no...
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Odayaka
as SaekoSaeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku...
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A Picture With Yuki
as YukiA married couple move to Bulgaria in order to start in vitro procedures. Both of them happen to...
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Tiger is Strolling Around
as Kitsumi (voice)Katsumi is feeling blue. While walking through a ghost Japanese town, she can see signs that her...
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Chigasaki Story
as MakiWhimsical film in which students and teachers come together during a weekend for a wedding. The...
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Jeux de plage
as uncreditedOne day in Spring, a college student Sayaka visits Shonan with Yui. Sayaka is secretly attracted...
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