Rinko Kikuchi
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.
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the...
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It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless....
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47 Ronin
as WitchKai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon...
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Babel
as ChiekoIn Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for...
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Shanghai
as Sumiko (uncredited)An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor...
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Norwegian Wood
as NaokoToru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to...
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The Brothers Bloom
as Bang BangThe Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex...
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Terra Formars
as Asuka MorikiWith the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with...
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The Taste of Tea
as Waitress At Noodle ShopA spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary...
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Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren...
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Trespassers
as Tanaka AkikoThree unlikely thieves break into a mansion looking for the cash they believe its owner is...
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In Love and Deep Water
as Aina HorikawaOn a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross...
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Yoko
as YokoA road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of...
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Survive Style 5+
as uncreditedFive bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined,...
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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
as RyuA Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.
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Love Strikes!
as Naoko HayashidaSet one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto doesn't have money,...
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We Are Little Zombies
as Yuko IbuTheir parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band....
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
as KikuchiAn outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around...
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as uncreditedHoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious...
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
as KumikoFrustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie...
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Endless Night
as AllakaEllesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a...
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
as Colonel Sen MasagoA large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief,...
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Assault Girls
as LuciferThree women and one man - with an assortment of weaponry - wage war against giant mutant...
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Genius Party
as uncreditedThe seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high...
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By Player
as uncreditedThe film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a...
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Kill
as (segment "ASSAULT GIRL 2")Four segments by four different Directors. Kiriko (Takanori Tsujimoto), The Children’s Samurai...
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That Person Disappeared
as TeradaSet in an apartment building where many people are rumored to disappear one after another, the...
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Sideways
as Mina ParkerA struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country. Remake of...
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Last Summer
as NaomiA yacht lies at anchor in a bay off the Sicilian coast. Naomi, a young Japanese woman, has four...
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The Warped Forest
as uncreditedSettle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant...
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At River's Edge
as TazuA samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married...
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Portrait of the Wind
as uncreditedPortrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to...
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Arch Angels
as Nobuko SakuraiEvery high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled...
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School Ghost Story F
as uncreditedA made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by...
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Tokyo Serendipity
as Junda AtsukoYui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new...
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Umi de no hanashi
as KaoriKaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She...
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A Forest with No Name
as No. 51Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a...
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The Motive
as uncreditedFour people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...
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Age 17
as HitomiSeventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she...
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42 One Dream Rush
as uncreditedCollection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
as SayokoA freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly":...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
as SelfThe making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational...
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Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter
as Kitashiro UraraMitsuhashi Yukio is a passionate PR man for a sanitary product manufacturer. A single father, he...
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Will to Live
as uncreditedIt is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the...
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Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe
as uncreditedKeisuke is a poor member of the trash every day with his meager income to support he's carrying...
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It's Getting Late
as AnnaIn the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives. The camera...
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The Phantom of August
as uncreditedMamoru works as an illustrator in Tokyo. He and his girlfriend decide to visit his hometown of...
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Baby Blue
as Hazuki"What if we just forget about today or the future" A phrase that gives start to a small...
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Dear Deer
as OnlookerWhen Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody...
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Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
as uncreditedIn a distant future, humans make the switch to android life. They abolish 'flaws' such as...
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Making-of１７才
as uncreditedBehind-the-scenes footage of Houka Kinoshita's film １７才 (Age 17).
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The Dancing Kettle
as uncreditedA mysterious package arrives, shape shifting ensues and rescuer is rewarded her kindness
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Hole in the Sky
as TaekoThe film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her...
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Westworld
as AkaneA dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the...
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Churasan
as Maiko MurayamaThe 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was...
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Invasion
as Hinata MuraiEarth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real...
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Tokyo Vice
as Eimi MaruyamaA first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American...
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Time Limit Investigator
as uncreditedShūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have...
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LIAR GAME
as Ryo KatsuragiNao Kanzaki, a student, was blackmailed into joining a "Liar Game" and ended up losing 100...
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The Private Detective Mike
as uncreditedMike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the...
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Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
as Reiko Shosenkyo（昇仙峡 玲子）Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice...
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Love Strikes!
as NaokoMoriyama plays a temp worker who has never had any luck with women. One day, he suddenly starts...
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A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team–
as Aiba MachikoTōko Kisaragi is a detective in the Investigation 1 Section 11 of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police...
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Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
as Shosenkyo ReikoEvery day, bank branches encounter various problems like missing money, information leaks, loan...
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Weakest Beast
as Kureha TachibanaSeemingly perfect from the outside, Shinkai Akira was exhausted from worrying too much about how...
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Gu Gu the Cat
as ChikakoAbout a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living,...
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PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
as Tatsuki SamejimaTakeshiro Shikota is a 27-year-old pediatrician in Hokkaido, Japan. He was born and raised in...
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The Frame
as Mako MoriA journey through the world of classic and contemporary cinema.
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To Give a Dream
as Mikiko Abe13 years ago, the Abe family moved to a town in the suburbs, surrounded by nature. The Abe...
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Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team
as Machiko AibaTakano has been transferred to the Public Security Department, which is considered to be an...
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