Yoshino Kimura
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Yoshino Kimura October 22, 2005
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Native name | 木村 佳乃 |
Born | London, England, United Kingdom |
April 10, 1976
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1996–present |
Spouse(s) | Noriyuki Higashiyama |
Children | 2[1] |
Yoshino Kimura (木村 佳乃 Kimura Yoshino?, born 10 April 1976) is an English-born Japanese actress and former idol singer. She appeared on an episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror. Kimura won the "Rookie of the Year" prize at the 21st Japan Academy Awards for her appearance in Shitsurakuen.[2]
History
Kimura appeared as Shizuka in the recent spaghetti-western Sukiyaki Western Django. As of 25 June 2007 she is slated to star in a new Japanese soap opera to be set in Australia.[3] Kimura also voiced Master Tigress in the Japanese dub of Kung Fu Panda and Kung Fu Panda 2. She also appears in Blindness as the First Blind Man's Wife. On 24 October 2010 she married Noriyuki Higashiyama.[4]
In 2007, Kimura took the title role in a TV Asahi tanpatsu (単発, TV movie), entitled Teresa Teng Monogatari (テレサ・テン物語), portraying the late Taiwanese superstar, who was (and continues to be) popular throughout Asia.
She played Kazusa Monzen and Aoi Monzen in the 2008 film Orochi: Blood.[5]
She also did the voice of Claire Folley in the game Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
Filmography
Film
- Blindness (2008) – First Blind Man's Wife
- Confessions (2010) – Yuko Shimomura
- Hot Road (2014) – Kazuki's mother
- Iya na Onna (2016) – Natsuko Kotani
- Hoshigaoka Wonderland (2016)
Television
- Tenchijin (2009) – Oryō
- Nakanai to Kimeta Hi (2010) – Yukiko Sano
- Asa ga Kita (2015) – Soe Kushida
- Sanada Maru (2016) – Matsu
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/allprizes/1998/index.html
- ↑ "Neighbours effect' tried on Japanese," BBC
- ↑ Noriyuki Higashiyama, Yoshino Kimura, now married
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- Living people
- Japanese expatriates in the United Kingdom
- British people of Japanese descent
- Japanese female pop singers
- Singers from London
- People from London
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