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
is a 1961 Japanese crime drama film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, and co-written by Shinobu Hashimoto and Yoji Yamada. It is based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto. A remake of the film was released in 2009.
Plot
One wee ...
'' with
Miki Nakatani and
Ryōko Hirosue, and starred in
Makoto Shinozaki's ''Tokyo Island''.
She appeared in
Miwa Nishikawa's ''Dreams for Sale''.
Filmography
Films
*''
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, the ...
'' (2004)
*''
Infection
An infection is the invasion of tissue (biology), tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host (biology), host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmis ...
'' (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'' ultimat ...
'' (2005)
*''
Oh! Oku'' (2006)
*''
Kaidan
is a Japanese language, 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 ...
'' (2007)
*''
All Around Us'' (2008)
*''
Shizumanu Taiyō'' (2009)
*''
Zero Focus
is a 1961 Japanese crime drama film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, and co-written by Shinobu Hashimoto and Yoji Yamada. It is based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto. A remake of the film was released in 2009.
Plot
One wee ...
'' (2009)
*''Tokyo Island'' (2010)
*''
Yoake no Machi de
is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu, based on the novel of the same name by Keigo Higashino.
Cast
* Gorō Kishitani
* Kyoko Fukada
* Tae Kimura
* Ken Ishiguro
* Masaya Kikawada
* Ken Tanaka (actor), Ken Tanaka
* Hisako Manda
* ...
'' (2011)
*''Dreams for Sale'' (2012)
*''
Monsterz'' (2014)
*''
The Case of Hana & Alice
is a Japanese rotoscoped youth drama film written, directed, edited, co-scored and co-produced 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 ...
'' (2015)
*''
Have a Song on Your Lips'' (2015)
*''Gold Medal Man'' (2016)
*''Kōfuku no Alibi'' (2016)
*''Cat Collector's House'' (2017)
*''
Yurigokoro'' (2017)
*''Homecoming'' (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)
*''
Cottontail'' (2022) – Akiko
*''Prior Convictions'' (2022) – Emma Miyaguchi
*
''My Home Hero: The Movie'' (2024), Kasen Tosu
*''90 Years Old – So What?'' (2024), Mariko Kikkawa
Television
*''
Ring: The Final Chapter'' (1999)
*''
Unfair
Unfair may refer to:
* The negative form of the adjective ''fair''; unfairness or injustice
* ''Unfair'' (drama), Japanese television series
* '' Unfair: The Movie''
* "Unfair" (song) by Exo
* "Unfair, a song by Stray Kids from their mixtape '' ...
'' (2006)
*''
Masshiro'' (2015)
*''
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
'' (2011), Furutachi Ayako
*''
Taira no Kiyomori
was a military leader and '' kugyō'' of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai-dominated administrative government in the history of Japan.
Early life
Kiyomori was born in Japan, in 1118 as the first son of Taira ...
'' (2012), Hotoke Gozen
*''
Daddy Sister'' (2016), Kimiko Kohashi
*''
Your Turn to Kill'' (2019), Sanae Enomoto
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*'' 24 Japan'' (2020), Rikka Shidō
*''Involvement in Family Affairs'' (2022), Kumi Miyama
*''Last Man:The Blind Profiler'' (2023), Deborah Jean Hongō
*'' What Will You Do, Ieyasu?'' (2023), Nabe
*'' My Home Hero'' (2023), Kasen Tosu]
*''Alice in Wonderful Kitchen'' (2024), Makiko Gojō
*'' House of Ninjas'' (2024), Yoko Tawara
*'' Happy Kanako's Killer Life'' (2025), Kanako's mother
References
External links
Official website
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Japanese film actresses
Japanese television actresses
1971 births
Living people
Actresses from Tokyo
20th-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses
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