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• Actions speak loudest: the rise and rise of Rinko Kikuchi

  South China Morning Post - Found Jun. 17, 2009 Watching Rinko Kikuchi ascend the hallowed steps of Cannes' Festivals des Palais last month for the premiere of Maps of the Sounds of Tokyo - in ...

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• REVIEW: Who's conning whom?

  London Free Press - Found Jun. 27, 2009 Also in the cast of The Brothers Bloom are Robbie Coltrane, Rinko Kikuchi (as the explosives expert Bang Bang) and Maximilian Schell.

• Who's conning whom?

  London Free Press - Found Jun. 26, 2009 Also in the cast of The Brothers Bloom are Robbie Coltrane, Rinko Kikuchi (as the explosives expert Bang Bang) and Maximilian Schell.

• Portrait of artist as conman

  Edmonton Sun - Found Jun. 26, 2009 Also in the cast of The Brothers Bloom are Robbie Coltrane, Rinko Kikuchi (as the explosives expert Bang Bang) and Maximilian Schell.

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  Atlantic City Weekly - Found Jun. 24, 2009 Also part of the team is Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi), the munitions? expert.

• Con-artist comedy is a blast

  Cape Times - Found Jul. 2, 2009 THE BROTHERS BLOOM. Directed by Rian Johnson, with Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi and Robbie Coltrane.

• No blockbuster, but stylish Brothers sure to charm you

  The Record - Found Jul. 3, 2009 And who knew Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) was so funny?

• Many pros in con film 'Bloom'

  Wichita Falls Times Record News - Found Jul. 3, 2009 When Bloom runs off, Stephen?s mostly silent Japanese assistant and explosives expert, Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi), finds him.

• Madison at the Movies: Cast, director shine in beautiful 'Bloom'

  Johnson City Press - Found Jul. 3, 2009 ... the almighty ?last con.? Bloom reluctantly agrees and accompanies his brother and Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi), a mute demolitions expert, as...

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Rinko Kikuchi (菊地 凛子 Kikuchi Rinko)
Rinko Kikuchi
Born	Yuriko Kikuchi January 6, 1981 (1981-01-06) (age 28) Hadano, Japan
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Rinko Kikuchi (菊地 凛子, Kikuchi Rinko^?), born Yuriko Kikuchi (菊地 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 in acting categories, since Miyoshi Umeki, who won in 1957 for Sayonara.

Contents 1 Life 2 Filmography 2.1 Television 3 Awards and nominations 4 References 5 External links 6 Bibliography

Life

Kikuchi was born in Minamigaoka, Hadano City, Kanagawa Prefecture. 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 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 emotionally intense role in Babel has led to her being noticed by many international directors, such as Rian Johnson, auteur director of Brick. She starred in his second film, 2009's The Brothers Bloom, which was her first fully English-language feature. Though she plays a main character, she only speaks three words in the film; her character is said to only know three words of English.

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 — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress2 Film nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture Non-speaking Role
2007	Zukan ni Nottenai Mushi3	Satoshi Miki	a.k.a. The Bug That's Not in the Guide
2008	The Brothers Bloom4	Rian Johnson	Non-speaking role
	The Sky Crawlers5	Mamoru Oshii	Animated film
2009	Map of the Sounds of Tokyo	Isabel Coixet
2010	Norwegian Wood	Tran Anh Hung	Naoko

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

External links

• Official site
• Rinko Kikuchi at the Internet Movie Database

Bibliography

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