is a Japanese actress. She won the Best Actress award at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize for '' All Around Us''.

Biography

Kimura starred in Ryosuke Hashiguchi's '' All Around Us''. Her performance in the film was described by Jason Gray as "one of the most accurate portrayals of someone suffering from depression I've ever seen." She co-starred in Isshin Inudo's '' Zero Focus'' with Miki Nakatani and

Ryōko Hirosue is a Japanese actress and singer, best known to international audiences for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced ''Wasabi'' and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film '' Departures''. She also starred in the 2008 comedy series '' Yasuko to Kenj ...

, and starred in

Makoto Shinozaki (born 1963 in Tokyo) is a Japanese film director. Career Born in Tokyo, Shinozaki attended Rikkyo University, where he studied under Shigehiko Hasumi, made 8mm films, and appeared in the then amateur works of other Rikkyo graduates such as K ...

's ''Tokyo Island''. She appeared in

Miwa Nishikawa is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Nishikawa received a degree in literature from the University of Waseda, and after working on several independent films as well as catching the eye of Hirokazu Kore-eda, her film making career took off ...

's ''Dreams for Sale''.

Filmography

Films

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Hana and Alice is a 2004 Japanese teen romance film by director Shunji Iwai. The film, shot on HD digital video by the director of photography, Noboru Shinoda, who shared a longstanding working relationship with Shunji Iwai, concerns the life of two girls, th ...

'' (2004) *''

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'' (2004) – 2nd nurse *'' All About My Dog'' (2005) *''

Densha Otoko is a Japanese movie, television series, manga, novel, and other media, all based on the purportedly true story of a 23-year-old ''otaku'' who intervened when a drunk man started to harass several women on a train. The ''otaku'' ultimate ...

'' (2005) *''

Oh! Oku is a Japanese historic romantic drama film released on December 23, 2006, by Fuji Television. The film revolves around the Ejima-Ikushima affair of 1714. Director Tōru Hayashi and screenplay writer Taeko Asano also directed and wrote the 2003~20 ...

'' (2006) *''

Kaidan is a Japanese word consisting of two kanji: 怪 (''kai'') meaning "strange, mysterious, rare, or bewitching apparition" and 談 (''dan'') meaning "talk" or "recited narrative". Overall meaning and usage In its broadest sense, ''kaidan'' refer ...

(2007) *'' All Around Us'' (2008) *''

Shizumanu Taiyō (lit. ''The Never-setting Sun'') is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu. It is also known as ''The Unbroken'' in the United States. ''Shizumanu Taiyō'' is based on a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki which centers on Hajime Onchi, an e ...

'' (2009) *'' Zero Focus'' (2009) *''Tokyo Island'' (2010) *'' Yoake no Machi de'' (2011) *''Dreams for Sale'' (2012) *'' Monsterz'' (2014) *''

The Case of Hana & Alice is a Japanese rotoscoped youth drama film written and directed by Shunji Iwai. It is the prequel to Iwai's 2004 live-action film, ''Hana and Alice''. The film was released on February 20, 2015. A manga adaptation by Dowman Sayman began seria ...

'' (2015) *'' Have a Song on Your Lips'' (2015) *''Gold Medal Man'' (2016) *''Kōfuku no Alibi'' (2016) *''Cat Collector's House'' (2017) *'' Yurigokoro'' (2017) *''Bōkyō'' (2017) – Sayoko *''Good-Bye'' (2020) – Shizue Tajima *''Not Quite Dead Yet'' (2020) *''The Supporting Actors: The Movie'' (2021) – Herself *''Your Turn to Kill: The Movie'' (2021) *''

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'' (2022) – Akiko *''Prior Convictions'' (2022) – Emma Miyaguchi

Television

*'' Ring: The Final Chapter'' (1999) *'' Unfair'' (2006) *''

Masshiro is a Japanese soap opera series created by Yumiko Inoue. She wrote the screenplay based on her own experiences of her father being in hospital. Maki Horikita played the lead role as a nurse. It premiered on TBS on 13 January 2015, and concluded 1 ...

'' (2015) *'' Daddy Sister'' (2016), Kimiko Kohashi *'' Your Turn to Kill'' (2019) *'' 24 Japan'' (2020), Rikka Shidō * ''House of Ninjas'' (2024), Yoko Tawara

References

External links

Official website
* * Japanese actresses 1971 births Living people People from Tokyo {{Japan-actor-stub