Yoshino Kimura
Yoshino Kimura is a Japanese actress and 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.
Career
Kimura appeared as Shizuka in the 2007 spaghetti-western Sukiyaki Western Django. As of 25 June 2007, she was 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 titular role in the TV Asahi tanpatsu Teresa Teng Monogatari, 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 voiced Claire Folley in the video game Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
Filmography
Films
- Lost Paradise – Chika
- Isola – Yukari Kamo
- Hashire! Ichirō – Terada
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Princess Kida
- Mobōhan – Shigeko Maehata
- Her Island, My Island – Kuriko
- Like Asura – Keiko Akagi
- Ichigo no Kakera
- Bluestockings – Kiyoko
- The Samurai I Loved – Fuku
- Nezu no Ban – Shigeko
- Backdancers! – Reiko Mihama
- Sakuran – Takao
- Glory to the Filmmaker! – Akiko
- Densen Uta – Ranko Kaburagi
- Sukiyaki Western Django – Shizuka
- Fine, Totally Fine – Akari Kinoshita
- Aibō the Movie – Hinako Katayama
- Jirochô Sangokushi – Osono
- Orochi: Blood – Aoi Monzen, Kazusa Monzen
- Blindness – First Blind Man's Wife
- Rescue Wings – Mina Takasu
- Daremo Mamotte Kurenai – Reiko Onoue
- Killer Bride's Perfect Crime – Fukuko Kobayashi
- Confessions – Yuko Shimomura
- King Game – Yamazaki
- Aibō Series X DAY – Hinako Katayama
- Hot Road – Kazuki's mother
- Hoshigaoka Wonderland – Sawako Kiyokawa
- Desperate Sunflowers – Natsuko Kotani
- Pretty Cure Dream Stars! - Shizuku
- My Dad is a Heel Wrestler - Shiori
- Hit Me Anyone One More Time - President of the United States
- Diner
- Yo-kai Watch Jam the Movie: Yo-Kai Academy Y - Can a Cat be a Hero? - Medusa
- The Legacy of Dr. Death: Black File
- Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
- First Love
- Masquerade Night
- The Boy and the Heron - Natsuko
- ''Re/Member: The Last Night''
Television
- Shota no Sushi – Saori Otori
- Hojo Tokimune - Toko
- Remote – Yuka Sasaki
- Aibō – Hinako Katayama
- Masters of Horror – Yuri Saito
- Teresa Teng Monogatari - Teresa Teng
- Tenchijin – Oryō
- Nakanai to Kimeta Hi – Yukiko Sano
- Asa ga Kita – Soe Kushida
- Sanada Maru – Matsu
- Hiyokko – Miyoko Yatabe
- Home Sweet Tokyo – Itsuki Jenkins
- Dokonimo nai Kuni – Mariko Maruyama
- Reach Beyond the Blue Sky – Hiraoka Yasu
- No Activity – Misato Satomi
- Minami-kun ga Koibito!? – Kaede
- The 19th Medical Chart – Shiori Arimatsu
Dubbing
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Princess Kida
- Open Season – Beth
- Kung Fu Panda – Master Tigress
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – Medusa
- Kung Fu Panda 2 – Master Tigress
- Paddington – Millicent Clyde
- Jurassic World – Claire Dearing
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – Claire Dearing
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters – Dr. Emma Russell
- Jungle Cruise – Dr. Lily Houghton
- Turning Red – Ming Lee
- Jurassic World Dominion – Claire Dearing
Discography
Albums
- 1999.03.03 "One and Only"
- 2000.04.20 "Girl"
- 2001.09.19 "Lady -The Best of Yoshino Kimura-"
Singles
- 1998.06.17 "Iruka no Natsu"
- 1998.09.18 "Love and Life"
- 1999.01.20 "Hello myself"
- 1999.12.01 "Amenohi wa Futari de"
- 2000.03.17 "Koisuru Nichiyobi"
- 2000.09.06 "Lullaby for Grandmother-M Version-"