Yoshino Kimura (木æ' 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.
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. 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.
In 2007, Kimura took the title role in a TV Asahi tanpatsu (å˜ç™º, 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.
She also did the voice of Claire Folley in the game Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
Filmography
Film
- Blindness (2008) â€" First Blind Man's Wife
- Confessions (2010) â€" Yuko Shimomura
- Hot Road (2014) â€" Kazuki's mother
Television
- Tenchijin (2009) â€" OryÅ
- Nakanai to Kimeta Hi (2010) â€" Yukiko Sano
- Sanada Maru (2016) â€" Matsu
References
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External links
- Kimura Yoshino at the Internet Movie Database
- JMDb profile (in Japanese)