Rinko Kikuchi

 Rinko Kikuchi

 Date of birth: January 6,1981

 Place of birth: Kanagawa, Japan

 Rinko Kikuchi was born on January 6th, 1981 in Kanagawa. She started her modeling and acting career at the age of fifteen with her real name Yuriko Kikuchi. She changed her screen name to Rinko in May 2004. She made her film debut in "Ikitai" in 1999, which was directed by Kaneto Shindo. Since then she’s added more than a dozen movies and TV commercial films to her resume. She gave particularly strong performances in “Hole Of The Sky” (2002) directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and in “Tori/Kokorono Katana,” (2004) directed by Tadanobu Asano. Kikuchi also appeared in “The Taste of Tea,” directed By Katsuhito Ishii, which was selected by The 57th Cannes Film Festival in 2004. In the “FUNKY FOREST_The First Contact”(2005) directed by FUNKY FOREST ( Katsuhito Ishii / Shunichiro Miki / A N I K I), she portrayed a class president and showed her comical side. “Babel” is her first appearance in an American movie.

Filmography Cinema - TV

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2006 Warau Mikaeru de Issei Oda

2006 Babel de Alejandro González Inárritu 

2005 Naisu no mori: The First Contact de Katsuhito Ishii

2005 Taga tameni de Taro Hyugaji

2004 Riyuu de Nobuhiko Obayashi

2004 Survive Style 5+ de Gen Sekiguchi

2004 69 de Sang-il Lee

2004 Cha no aji de Katsuhito Ishii

2004 Tori de Tadanobu Asano

2001 Drug de Hiroshi Sugawara

2001 Sora no ana de Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

2000 Sanmon yakusha de Kaneto Shindô

1999 Ikitai de Kaneto Shindô

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