Rinko Kikuchi

Rinko Kikuchi

Nacimiento : 1981-01-06, Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Historia

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.

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Rinko Kikuchi
Rinko Kikuchi
Rinko Kikuchi

Películas

侵入者たちの晩餐
Yoko
Yoko
A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
Colonel Sen Masago
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
The Dancing Kettle
A mysterious package arrives, shape shifting ensues and rescuer is rewarded her kindness
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
We Are Little Zombies
Yuko Ibu
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
I'm still here
Screenplay
Wpc. 15th anniversary short movie
Pacific Rim: Insurrección
Mako Mori
Un futuro cercano. Después de la primera invasión que sufrió la humanidad, la lucha aun no ha terminado. El planeta vuelve a ser asediado por los Kaiju, una raza de alienígenas colosales que emergen desde un portal interdimensional, con el objetivo de destruir a la raza humana. Ante esta nueva amenaza para la cual los humanos no están preparados, los Jaegers, robots gigantes de guerra pilotados por dos personas para sobrellevar la inmensa carga neural que conlleva manipularlos, ya no están a la altura de lo que se les viene encima. Será entonces cuando los supervivientes de la primera invasión, además de nuevos personajes como el hijo de Pentecost (John Boyega), tendrán que idear la manera de sorprender al enorme enemigo, apostando por nuevas estrategias defensivas y de ataque. Con la Tierra en ruinas e intentando reconstruirse, esta nueva batalla puede ser decisiva para el futuro.
Highheels: Kodawari ga unda otogibanashi
In a distant future, humans make the switch to android life. They abolish 'flaws' such as complicated human needs and traits such as the ability to possess and express emotion. However, a system glitch causes 'desire' to resurface in some, including Kai (Rinko Kikuchi; Pacific Rim, Babel), an android shoe-maker. Kai begins to feel an obsession with her craft, like what human beings used to have. One day, an android customer orders Kai to create a special pair of heels. Shut in the atelier, Kai remakes the shoes over and over again until it's perfect. When the customer returns, Kai finds out that one shoe doesn't quite fit. But just as Kai promised to put more work into the pair of shoes, another customer comes to demand her own special pair too.
A Story About Kagurazaka and Sake
Etsuko
Etsuko (Rinko Kikuchi) was given the post to take charge in the launch of a web media site which specifically deals with the theme “the streets and the town of Tokyo”. So her recent daily routine was to walk around town searching for materials that may be suitable for the plan. One day she runs into a sake barrel stacked in a shrine in Kagurazaka (Shinjuku District, Tokyo), and she finds herself immediately interested in sake and it’s history with the Kagurazaka area. She decides to do a research, and calls photographer and long time friend Ikeda (Yota Kawase), and starts her quest for the secret of the fascinating sake and the historical town. For Etsuko, who had been stressed out by her busy work, her idea of gathering interesting informations and meeting people for her job turned out becoming an exciting journey which eventually leads Etsuko to reconcile with her peaceful heart and mind, which had always been her nature.
Terra Formars
Asuka Moriki
En el siglo XXI, la humanidad decidió empezar el proceso de terraformación de Marte, y se envió una nave con musgo y cucarachas para que generasen una atmósfera adecuada. 500 años después, un grupo de personas es enviado al planeta rojo con el objetivo de exterminar a las cucarachas. El problema es que estas han evolucionado... y que odian a los humanos. Un nuevo delirio de Miike, basado en un manga, y con acción a prueba de insecticidas.
Nadie quiere la noche
Allaka
Isla de Ellesmere, norte de Canadá, 1908. Josephine, una mujer valiente pero ingenua, emprende un peligroso viaje por inhóspitas regiones en busca de su esposo, el explorador Robert Peary, que intenta encontrar una ruta hacia el Polo Norte.
Dear Deer
Onlooker
When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain village.
Kumiko, la cazadora de tesoros
Executive Producer
Una solitaria mujer japonesa se convence de que un bolso con dinero enterrado en la película 'Fargo' es real. Dejando atrás su estructurada vida en Tokio por la congelada Minnesota, ella se embarca en una búsqueda impulsiva para encontrar la mítica fortuna perdida.
Kumiko, la cazadora de tesoros
Kumiko
Una solitaria mujer japonesa se convence de que un bolso con dinero enterrado en la película 'Fargo' es real. Dejando atrás su estructurada vida en Tokio por la congelada Minnesota, ella se embarca en una búsqueda impulsiva para encontrar la mítica fortuna perdida.
Last Summer
Naomi
A yacht lies at anchor in a bay off the Sicilian coast. Naomi, a young Japanese woman, has four days to leave her son with a lasting memory of her before she loses custody of him forever. In this hostile environment, Naomi faces the difficulty of approaching Ken under the controlling glare of the crew. When Naomi's hopes seem lost Ken starts to take an interest in her. Timeless days magnify the weight of their last goodbye.
La leyenda del samurái (47 Ronin)
Witch
La película es una adaptación de la famosa "Leyenda de los 47 ronin", que ya ha sido adaptada a la pantalla en varias ocasiones y que es considerada en Japón como una leyenda nacional, y pone de manifiesto el código de honor samurái por excelencia: el Bushido. Nos encontramos en el siglo XVII, en el Japón feudal. Kai (Keanu Reeves, 'The Matrix') es un paria que se une al líder de los 47 Ronin, 47 guerreros sin amo que tuvieron que convertirse en outsiders después de que su señor fuera obligado a cometer sepukku (suicidio al estilo samurái), Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada, 'El ocaso del samurái'). Juntos lucharán por vengarse del traidor que mató a su señor y les condenó al destierro. Para restablecer el honor a su tierra natal, los guerreros se lanzan a una búsqueda plagada de duras pruebas capaces de destruir a cualquiera.
Pacific Rim
Mako Mori
Cuando legiones de monstruosas criaturas, denominadas Kaiju, comienzan a salir del mar, se inicia una guerra que acabará con millones de vidas y que consumirá los recursos de la humanidad durante interminables años. Para combatir a los Kaiju gigantes diseñan un tipo especial de arma: enormes robots, llamados Jaegers, que son controlados simultáneamente por dos pilotos cuyas mentes están bloqueadas en un puente neural. Pero incluso los Jaegers proporcionan poca defensa ante los incansables Kaiju. A punto de la derrota, las fuerzas que defienden a la humanidad no tienen otra elección que recurrir a dos insólitos héroes: un ex piloto acabado (Charlie Hunnam) y un aprendiz que todavía no se ha puesto a prueba (Rinko Kikuchi). Ambos se unen para traer a un legendario pero al parecer obsoleto Jaeger del pasado. Juntos, son la última esperanza de la humanidad frente al Apocalipsis que se avecina.
It's Getting Late
Anna
In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives. The camera follows each as they wind down their working days, their four stories weaving together as each prepares for their evening.
The Warped Forest
Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?
Love Strikes!
Naoko Hayashida
Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto (Mirai Moriyama) doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm and is attempting to start a new life by working as a writer for a news site. Suddenly, Yukiyo experiences "moteki" - a period when a man becomes suddenly popular with woman. Cute magazine editor Miyuki (Masami Nagasawa), pure and naive office worker Rumiko (Kumiko Aso), beautiful shop assistant Ai (Riisa Naka) and beautiful, but tough co-worker named Motoko (Yoko Maki) all become interested in Yukiyo. He tries to calm down, but is shaken by the interests of these women.
At River's Edge
Tazu
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has to accept the mission even though he has inner conflicts.
Tokio Blues (Norwegian Wood)
Naoko
Adaptación de la prestigiosa novela homónima de Murakami. La historia comienza cuando un hombre llamado Toru Watanabe escucha la canción de los Beatles "Norwegian Wood" mientras aterriza en el aeropuerto de Hamburgo, lo que le hace retroceder a su juventud y al turbulento Tokio de la década de los 60.
42 One Dream Rush
Película de episodios en la que conocidos autores cinematográficos plantean sus ideas acerca de los sueños.
42 One Dream Rush
Director
Película de episodios en la que conocidos autores cinematográficos plantean sus ideas acerca de los sueños.
Shanghai
Sumiko (uncredited)
Años cuarenta. La II Guerra Mundial se encuentra en pleno apogeo. En medio del ambiente crispado, el detective Paul Soames (John Cusak, 'El enigma del cuervo'), llega a la ciudad de Shangai para aclarar la muerte de su mejor amigo, pero sin darse cuenta acaba atrapado en una peligrosa conspiración. Perseguido por un agente del servicio secreto japonés, Tanaka (Ken Watanabe, 'Origen'), sus sospechas se centran en un capo de la mafia local, el carismático Anthony Lang-Ting (Chow Yun-Fat, 'The Killer') y en su bella esposa, Anna (Gong Li, 'La maldición de la flor dorada'), con la que se verá envuelto en un peligroso romance. Ambos deberán resolver el crimen y huir de la ciudad antes de que descubran su secreto.
Assault Girls
Lucifer
La historia va sobre un grupo de mujeres y un hombre, dentro de un RPG online del futuro en el que no se usara mandos, teclados ni ratones para poder jugarlo, si no por medio del cerebro.En la partida en total son 3 mujeres que están dotadas de experiencia e items y un tío un poco vago que no tiene mucha experiencia, se dedican estas personas a matar a unos monstruos del escenario, pero llega un momento que se acaba la munición y el master de la partida les dice que se tienen que unir en un grupo para combatir contra el final boss
Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio
Ryu
Narra la historia de una asesina a sueldo en Tokio (Rinko Kikuchi), que esconde su profesión bajo la apariencia de empleada de un mercado. Kikuchi (nominada al Oscar por su papel de joven sordomuda en "Babel") interpreta a la criminal, mientras que Sergi López encarna al propietario de una tienda de vinos en Tokio.
Sideways
Mina Parker
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country. Remake of the 2004 film 'Sideways'.
Kill
Four segments by four different Directors. Kiriko (Takanori Tsujimoto), The Children’s Samurai (Kenta Fukasaku), The Firing Range (Makoto Tahara), and Assault Girl 2 (Mamoru Oshii). Kiriko: the spirit of a murdered assassin takes revenge on the gang that killed her and her sister. Children's Samurai: an educational film narrates the like of a modern grade-school samurai dealing with bullies. Firing Range: the rifle of a Meiji Era soldier and the pistol of a modern police officer are transformed into powerful new weapons when they face off. Assault Girl 2: two guardian angels duel in a wheat field.
Los hermanos Bloom
Bang Bang
Los hermanos Bloom han ido perfeccionando progresivamente el arte de estafar grandes fortunas durante muchos años de fraternal trabajo en equipo. Su último y espectacular proyecto consiste en involucrar a una bella y excéntrica heredera en una conspiración que los llevará alrededor del mundo.
Surcadores del Cielo
Suito Kusanagi (voice)
En un mundo en el que al fin se ha instaurado la paz, la única manera de preservarla es mantener una guerra televisada. Un espectáculo cuyos protagonistas son los "Kildren", jóvenes nacidos y entrenados para combatir a bordo de sus aviones, y para morir jóvenes.
Tokyo Serendipity
Junda Atsuko
Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.
Genius Party
Los siete cortometrajes que componen GENIUS PARTY no podrían ser más diversos, vinculados solo por un alto nivel de calidad e inspiración.
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
Sayoko
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.
Killers Kill, Dead Men Die
The Queenpin
The most ambitious portfolio in the 13-year history of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue, this year's homage to noir had its own dramatic imperatives.
Umi de no hanashi
Kaori
Kaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She tries to confide in Dr. Nishijima, a lecturer that she has feelings for.
Babel
Chieko
Ambientada en Marruecos, Túnez, México y Japón. Armados con un Winchester, dos muchachos marroquíes salen en busca del rebaño de cabras de la familia. En medio del silencio del desierto, deciden probar el rifle, sin conocer el alcance de la bala. En un instante, entran en colisión las vidas de cuatro grupos de personas que viven en tres continentes distintos.
Arch Angels
Nobuko Sakurai
Every high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled on an impossibly pretty and strangely remote Japanese island, is no exception. In fact, given the atmosphere of strictness, propriety and even subtle menace looming over the elite, aristocratic, Catholic boarding school, it's no wonder Fumio, Kazune and Yuzuko quickly bond over their dislike of the place. With rumors of rich girls being kidnapped in the region, and even more so, their legal guardians, including the school's enigmatic headmaster, Mr. Lawrence, and Fumio's brother are suspicious and on alert. Then an accidental and inexplicable unleashing of magic power infuses the girls with spectacular abilities. When the truth about the kidnappings is revealed, they're going to need them.
Funky Forest: The First Contact
Kikuchi
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Portrait of the Wind
Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.
The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Survive Style 5+
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
69
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
Tori
Japanese film directed by Tadanobu Asano.
Age 17
Hitomi
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester, she becomes enamored with her classmate Ryou, who is repeating a year despite her good grades.
Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name
No. 51
Mike Yokohama es un detective privado contratado por el padre de una joven que se fue de la ciudad a una casa aislada para retirarse del mundo. Su misión es hacerla salir a tiempo para su boda. A su llegada se le asigna un número. El contacto con el mundo exterior está prohibido. Encuentra a la joven, pero esta se niega a salir...
The Phantom of August
Mamoru works as an illustrator in Tokyo. He and his girlfriend decide to visit his hometown of Onomichi. It is a bitter-sweet homecoming, for Mamoru has not been home in eight years. Upon his return, he experiences flashbacks of his ex-girlfriend, who died eight years ago. Feeling a sense of vulnerability, he visits the temple that he used to frequent in the past. There he sees a vision of Megumi, his ex-girlfriend...
Hole in the Sky
Taeko
The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed relationship between the tramp and the Drive-In worker starts to show the workers harmful will of possession, which finally leads to the somehow sad but also optimistically interpretable ending.
El actor secundario
Biopic sobre Taiji Tonoyama, actor japonés que interpretó más de 250 personajes a lo largo de su carrera, muchos de ellos en películas dirigidas por el propio Kaneto Shindo. Tonoyama empezó su carrera como actor en los años 50, siendo su primer papel protagonista dentro de una de las películas más aclamadas de Kaneto Shindo, "La Isla Desnuda", rodada íntegramente sin diálogos. Pero más allá de sus películas, el actor era más conocido por su vida privada; se le acusaba de mujeriego y alcohólico.
Voluntad de vivir
La historia de abandonar a la gente anciana en las montañas se ha preservado en la prefectura de Nagano, en el centro de Japón. Pero un gran número de leyendas similares pueden encontrarse, a modo de cuentos locales, aquí y allá, así como poemas escritos sobre este tema hace cientos de años. ¿Cómo se adapta este concepto a un mundo contemporaneo? En esta sociedad civilizada es imposible llevarse a los ancianos a la montaña. Y si alguien lo intenta, sería considerado un homicidio. La película muestra cómo se afronta este elemento social en la actualidad, comparado con la antigüedad.
Making-of17才
Behind-the-scenes footage of Houka Kinoshita's film 17才 (Age 17).