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'''Rinko Kikuchi''' {{Nihongo|菊地 凛子|Kikuchi Rinko}}, real name '''Yuriko Sometani''' {{Nihongo|染谷 百合子|Sometani Yuriko|née '''Kikuchi'''}}, is a [[Japan]]ese actress. While her first known film role was in the [[1997]] TV movie ''Haunted School F'', her official debut came two years later in Kaneto Shindo's ''[[wikipedia:Will to Live|Will to Live]]''. She is best known for her appearance in the [[2006]] [[United States|America]]n film ''[[wikipedia:Babel (film)|Babel]]'', for which she received numerous accolades and became the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. Kikuchi was cast as the character [[wikia:w:c:pacificrim:Mako Mori|Mako Mori]] in Guillermo del Toro's [[2013]] [[kaiju]] film ''[[wikipedia:Pacific Rim (film)|Pacific Rim]]'', a role which she reprised for its [[2018]] sequel ''[[Pacific Rim Uprising]]''. In [[2021]], she joined the cast of Satoshi Miki's Japanese [[tokusatsu]] comedy ''[[What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?]]'' as Defense Force Colonel Sen Masago.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.shochiku.co.jp/daikaijyu-movie/news/210117/|title=個性派オールスターキャスト解禁！|date=17 January 2022|work=What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?}}</ref> | '''Rinko Kikuchi''' {{Nihongo|菊地 凛子|Kikuchi Rinko}}, real name '''Yuriko Sometani''' {{Nihongo|染谷 百合子|Sometani Yuriko|née '''Kikuchi'''}}, is a [[Japan]]ese actress. While her first known film role was in the [[1997]] TV movie ''Haunted School F'', her official debut came two years later in Kaneto Shindo's ''[[wikipedia:Will to Live|Will to Live]]''. She is best known for her appearance in the [[2006]] [[United States|America]]n film ''[[wikipedia:Babel (film)|Babel]]'', for which she received numerous accolades and became the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. Kikuchi was cast as the character [[wikia:w:c:pacificrim:Mako Mori|Mako Mori]] in Guillermo del Toro's [[2013]] [[kaiju]] film ''[[wikipedia:Pacific Rim (film)|Pacific Rim]]'', a role which she reprised for its [[2018]] sequel ''[[wikipedia:Pacific Rim Uprising|Pacific Rim Uprising]]''. In [[2021]], she joined the cast of Satoshi Miki's Japanese [[tokusatsu]] comedy ''[[What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?]]'' as Defense Force Colonel Sen Masago.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.shochiku.co.jp/daikaijyu-movie/news/210117/|title=個性派オールスターキャスト解禁！|date=17 January 2022|work=What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?}}</ref> | ||
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==Selected filmography== | ==Selected filmography== | ||
*''[[Assault Girls]]'' (2009) as Lucifer | |||
*''[[wikipedia:Pacific Rim (film)|Pacific Rim]]'' (2013) as [[wikia:w:c:pacificrim:Mako Mori|Mako Mori]] | *''[[wikipedia:Pacific Rim (film)|Pacific Rim]]'' (2013) as [[wikia:w:c:pacificrim:Mako Mori|Mako Mori]] | ||
*''[[Pacific Rim Uprising]]'' (2018) as Mako Mori | *''[[wikipedia:Pacific Rim Uprising|Pacific Rim Uprising]]'' (2018) as Mako Mori | ||
*''[[What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?]]'' (2022) as Colonel Sen Masago | *''[[What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?]]'' (2022) as Colonel Sen Masago | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery widths="120" position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small"> | <gallery widths="120" position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small"> | ||
WDWDK - Sen Masago.jpg|Kikuchi in ''[[What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?]]'' | |||
WDWDK - Sen Masago.jpg | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Videos== | ==Videos== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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Rinko Kikuchi (菊地 凛子 Kikuchi Rinko), real name Yuriko Sometani (染谷 百合子 Sometani Yuriko, née Kikuchi), is a Japanese actress. While her first known film role was in the 1997 TV movie Haunted School F, her official debut came two years later in Kaneto Shindo's Will to Live. She is best known for her appearance in the 2006 American film Babel, for which she received numerous accolades and became the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. Kikuchi was cast as the character Mako Mori in Guillermo del Toro's 2013 kaiju film Pacific Rim, a role which she reprised for its 2018 sequel Pacific Rim Uprising. In 2021, she joined the cast of Satoshi Miki's Japanese tokusatsu comedy What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? as Defense Force Colonel Sen Masago.[1]
Selected filmography
- Assault Girls (2009) as Lucifer
- Pacific Rim (2013) as Mako Mori
- Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) as Mako Mori
- What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? (2022) as Colonel Sen Masago
Gallery
Kikuchi in What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?
Videos
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Trivia
- Kikuchi did not voice herself in the Japanese dub of Pacific Rim or its sequel. Instead, she was dubbed over by Megumi Hayashibara.
External links
References
This is a list of references for Rinko Kikuchi. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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