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  • 'The Brothers Bloom' stars Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, ...
    Chicago Tribune - Found Oct. 19, 2008
    Coltrane, channeling Peter Sellers) and accompanied by Bang Bang, a laconic pyrotechnician ('Babel's' Rinko Kikuchi), they travel the world in...
  • Rinko Kikuchi shines in post-'Babel' era
    Japan Today - Found Oct. 14, 2008
    Many movie fans overseas got their first look at Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi as the troubled deaf-mute girl Chieko in the 2006 film Babel, for
  • Runway To The Sky Crawlers Premiere - Rinko Kikuchi In Chanel
    Red Carpet Fashion Awards - Found Sep. 4, 2008
    Rinko Kikuchi arrives at The Sky Crawlers premiere at the Sala Grande during the Venice Film Festival last night. Rinko proves a voice-over for ...
  • Venice Film Festival party frocks: Natalie Portman, Rinko Kikuchi
    The Times South Africa - Found Sep. 3, 2008
    But I think Rinko Kikuchi is the business. How brilliant is her kickass Purdey- Japanese aesthetics at their best. x A
  • Who rocked the Chanel jacket best?
    Grazia Magazine - Found Nov. 18, 2008
    Here's Anne Hathaway, Sienna Miller and Rinko Kikuchi working the Chanel jacket in three very different ways: Lady-like chic, Boho glamour and...
  • Cartoon Contenders
    Macro World Investor - Found Nov. 17, 2008
    Voice talent: Ryo Kase, Rinko Kikuchi Why it would get nominated: The latest sci-fi spectacle from anime legend Mamoru Ishii ('Ghost in the...
  • Hi, I'm a wine blog..
    Variety Asia Online - Found Nov. 10, 2008
    Sideways.' The pic, which is already shooting on location in California's Napa Valley, stars Rinko Kikuchi ('Babel'), Kyoka Suzuki, Fumiyo...
  • Isabel Coixet picks stars for 'Sounds'
    Variety - Found Nov. 7, 2008
    Rinko Kikuchi and Sergi Lopez will star in Isabel Coixet's 'Map of the Sounds of Tokyo,' the Spanish director's follow-up to Penelope Cruz starrer
  • 'Sideways' gets Japanese remake
    Variety - Found Nov. 6, 2008
    Sideways.'The pic, which is already shooting on location in California's Napa Valley, stars Rinko Kikuchi ('Babel'), Kyoka Suzuki, Fumiyo...
  • Details of Japanese Sideways remake emerge
    Screendaily - Found Nov. 7, 2008
    He will be joined by Katsuhisa Namase, Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi and Kyoka Suzuki.

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Rinko Kikuchi
(菊地 凛子 Kikuchi Rinko)

Rinko Kikuchi
Born Yuriko Kikuchi
January 6, 1981 (1981-01-06) (age 27)
Hadano, Japan
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Rinko Kikuchi (菊地 凛子 Kikuchi Rinko?), born Yuriko Kikuchi (菊池 百合子 Kikuchi Yuriko?), January 6, 1981) is a Japanese actress. She has been nominated for the Academy Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Golden Globe, and won the NBR Award and the CFCA Award. Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She is Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee, since Miyoshi Umeki, who won in 1957 for Sayonara, died on August 27, 2007.

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Biography

Kikuchi was born in Minamigaoka,Hadano-City,Kanagawa-Prefacuture. She debuted in 1999 under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi, with the Kaneto Shindo-directed film Ikitai (生きたい?).1 Soon after, in 2001, she starred in the acclaimed Kazuyoshi Komuri-directed film Sora no Ana (空の穴?), which was featured across several international film festivals, including the Rotterdam Film Festival.1 In 2004, she appeared in the critically acclaimed Katsuhito Ishii-directed film Cha no Aji (茶の味?), which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.1

In 2006, she appeared in the critically-acclaimed Alejandro González Iñárritu-directed film Babel, where she played Chieko Wataya, a deaf-mute teenage girl, in a role for which she was critically acclaimed1 and nominated for numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.2 She won several, such as the National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance (tying with Jennifer Hudson) and the Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough. Kikuchi is also the fifth actress in Academy Award history to be nominated for an award for a role in which they do not speak a word. (The others were Jane Wyman, Patty Duke, Holly Hunter, and Samantha Morton.) Her hypnotic, emotionally intense role in Babel has led to her being noticed by many international directors, such as Rian Johnson, auteur director of Brick. She will star in his next film, The Brothers Bloom, which will be her first fully English-language feature.

She was mentioned in an episode of the TV show Robot Chicken on the Adult Swim network in a parody of the popular movie-themed Lego play sets.

Filmography

Year Title Director Notes
1999 Ikitai Kaneto Shindo a.k.a. Will to Live
2000 Sanmon Yakusha Kaneto Shindo
Akai Shibafu Mieko Umeuchi a.k.a. Red lawn
2001 Paradice Tatsuya Moriyama a.k.a. Paradise
Sora no Ana Kazuyoshi Kumakiri a.k.a. Hole of Sky
DRUG Hiroshi Sugawara
2002 Hachigatsu no Maboroshi Kosuke Suzuki a.k.a.Mirage of August
2003 Jyunanasai Hoka Kinoshita a.k.a. Seventeen
2004 Tori Tadanobu Asano
Cha no Aji Katsuhito Ishii a.k.a. The Taste of Tea
69 sixty nine Sang-il Lee
Survive Style 5+ Gen Sekiguchi, Taku Tada
Riyū Nobuhiko Obayashi
2005 Tagatameni Taro Hyugaji
2006 Nice no Mori: The First Contact Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki, Hajime Ishimine (ANIKI)
Warau Daitenshi Michael Issei Oda aka Archangels
Babel Alejandro González Iñárritu Nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress2
Film nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture.
2007 Zukan ni Nottenai Mushi3 Satoshi Miki a.k.a. The Bug That's Not in the Guide
2008 The Brothers Bloom4 Rian Johnson
The Sky Crawlers5 Mamoru Oshii Animated film

Television

  • Bakayaro! Special 2 (1999)
  • Kawaii dakeja Dame kashira (ANB) (1999)
  • Chura-san (NHK) (2001)
  • The private detective Mike Hama (YTV) #1 (2002)
  • Uchu ni Ichiban Chikai basho (2003)
  • Ai to Shihonshugi (WOWOW) (2003)

Awards and nominations

Year Group Award Result Film
2006 Gotham Awards Breakthrough Award Won Babel
Best Ensemble Cast Won
National Board of Review Best Breakthrough Performance - Female Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Won
Most Promising Performer Nominated
2007 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated
Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nominated
Academy Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role2 Nominated

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Midnight Eye interview: Rinko Kikuchi". Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
  2. ^ a b c "OSCAR.com - 79th Annual Academy Awards - Nomination". Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
  3. ^ "ANORE INC.". Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
  4. ^ "Brody and Kikuchi in Bloom - ComingSoon.net". Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
  5. ^ "Oshii Casts Oscar-Nominated Kikuchi for Sky Crawlers - Anime News Network". Retrieved on 2008-07-5.

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Bibliography

  • Morris, Jerome C. "Exposed! Interview with Riko Kikuchi", in Asian Cult Cinema, #55.