Rinko Kikuchi

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Rinko Kikuchi at the Berlinale 2015

Rinko Kikuchi ( Japanese 菊 地 凛子 , Kikuchi Rinko ; born January 6, 1981 in Hadano , Kanagawa ) is a Japanese actress and model . Until 2004 she appeared under her real name Yuriko Kikuchi ( 菊 地 百合 子 , Kikuchi Yuriko ). She became known to a wide audience through the supporting role of the deaf Chieko in the feature film Babel (2006).

Life

Rinko Kikuchi was born in 1981 in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture , not far from the Japanese capital Tokyo . The 1.68 meter tall actress first attracted attention in 1999 when she appeared in commercials for the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) and the PlayStation game console . In the same year Kikuchi started her acting career with two Japanese television films and a supporting role in Kaneto Shindō's cinema production Ikitai , which was published in Europe under the English-language title Will to Live . While she appeared on television and in other commercials for, among others, NTT (2001 and 2002), PlayStation (2000), Toyota (2004) and the Japanese television station WOWOW (2005), she received her first leading role in the cinema as a female heroine in 2000 in Mieko Umeuchi's Akai Shibafu , which was followed in 2001 by other leading roles in Tatsuya Moriyama's Paradice and Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's Sora no Ana . In the latter drama, which was included in the New Directors / New Films series by Lincoln Center under the English-language distribution title Hole in the Sky and shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York , Kikuchi plays the young Taeko, played by her boyfriend is abandoned and finds consolation in an equally lonely cook at a street snack bar (played by Susumu Terajima).

Although Rinko Kikuchi appeared after Sora no ana in award-winning dramas like Katsuhito Ishii's Cha no Aji , Sang-il Lee's 69 (both 2004) and Taro Hyugajis Taga Tame ni (2005), in which it for the third time on the side of Tadanobu Asano acted , but she was usually subscribed to insignificant supporting roles. This only changed in 2006 when the renowned Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu hired the Japanese for his drama Babel . In the episode film , whose cast includes Cate Blanchett , Brad Pitt and Gael García Bernal , Kikuchi plays alongside Kōji Yakusho the deaf Tokyo student Chieko, who tries to kill her mother's suicide and the communication barrier imposed on her through first sexual experiences to bridge with the male sex. Babel celebrated its successful premiere in mid-May 2006 at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival and opened in US cinemas on October 27, 2006. For her acting performance, which was perceived as an irritating mixture of sexual provocation, fearfulness and sheer anger, Rinko Kikuchi received the praise of the American film critics. In 2006 she won the Gotham Awards Young Actor Awards and the National Board of Review, among others, and nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards and the 2007 Academy Awards . After the victorious Miyoshi Umeki , Sessue Hayakawa , Makoto Iwamatsu and Ken Watanabe, she is only the fifth Japanese actor to have received the honor of being nominated for the prestigious US Academy Award . After three Japanese feature film productions and a speaking role in the animated film anthology Genius Party (2007), Kikuchi was again seen in a US feature film in 2008. In the crime comedy Brothers Bloom by Rian Johnson , she slipped into the role of a Japanese explosives expert alongside Rachel Weisz and Adrien Brody . With Mikael Håfström's historical drama Shanghai and Isabel Coixet's thriller Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (both 2009) further appearances in international cinema follow. In 2010 she took on the title role in the literary film adaptation of Naoko's smile .

Parallel to her work in film and television, Rinko Kikuchi acted in the play Suigin in 2002 under the direction of Hidehisa Tachibanas, and in 2004 she appeared in Yoshii Robinson's music video "Sweet Candy Rain" . In addition to motorcycling and horse riding, Kikuchi counts sign language and traditional arts such as the dance Nihon Buyo , Japanese archery and the Japanese way of drawing swords to her skills.

In 2017 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: Will to Live (Ikitai)
  • 2000: By Player (Sanmon Yakusha)
  • 2000: Akai Shibafu
  • 2001: Hole in the Sky (Sora no Ana)
  • 2002: Hachigatsu no Maboroshi
  • 2003: Seventeen (Jūnanasai)
  • 2004: Tori (short film)
  • 2004: The Taste of Tea (Cha no Aji)
  • 2004: 69
  • 2004: Survive Style 5+
  • 2004: The Reason (Riyū)
  • 2005: Portrait of the Wind (Taga Tame ni)
  • 2005: Funky Forest: The First Contact (Naisu no Mori: The First Contact)
  • 2006: Babel
  • 2006: Warau Mikaeru
  • 2007: Koisuru Madori
  • 2007: The Bug That's Not in the Guide (Zukan ni Nottenai Mushi)
  • 2008: Brothers Bloom (The Brothers Bloom)
  • 2008: Kiru
  • 2009: A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
  • 2010: Naoko's smile (Noruwei no Mori)
  • 2010: Shanghai
  • 2010: Moteki (TV series)
  • 2010: Sayonara, Robinson Crusoe (TV movie)
  • 2011: Moteki
  • 2011: The Warped Forest
  • 2013: Pacific Rim
  • 2013: 47 ronin
  • 2014: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
  • 2014: Nobody Wants the Night
  • 2018: Pacific Rim: Uprising
  • 2018: Westworld (TV series, 2 episodes)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Rinko Kikuchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scott, AO: Emotion Needs No Translation . In: New York Times, October 27, 2006, Section E, PT1; Column 1, Movies, Performing Arts / Weekend Desk, FILM REVIEW, p. 1
  2. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
personal data
SURNAME Kikuchi, Rinko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kikuchi, Yuriko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese actress and photo model
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadano , Kanagawa , Japan