Yukino Kishii

nihongo|Yukino Kishii|岸井 ゆきの|Kishii Yukino|born February 11, 1992

Biography Kishii was born in 1992 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She made her acting debut in 2009 as elementary school student Nana Sakurai in the drama . After a series of minor film and TV appearances, in 2015 she played the role of Taeko Hakozaki, a girl whose friend falls in love with Taeko's father, in the Kenji Yamauchi film , as well as the supporting role of Kanako in the TBS drama .

The next year Kishii landed several more TV and film roles. Her film roles included Yumika, an ex-girlfriend of a photographer whose rock star subject becomes attracted to her, in , and the Mariko Koike novel , and played the role of Taka, Nobushige's third wife, in the 55th NHK taiga drama Sanada Maru.

Kishii's first lead film role came in the 2017 Yukihiro Morigaki film as Yoshiko Haruno, the granddaughter of a recently deceased family patriarch. Sarah Ward of Screen Daily described her performance as "especially impressive, her wise-beyond-her-years demeanour helping to flesh out a protagonist largely tasked with observing everyone around her". Kishii's performance in Goodbye, Grandpa! won her a Best Newcomer Award at the 39th Yokohama Film Festival. That same year she played Sumire Michibata in the TBS television series and Miyuki Asakawa in the Kiyoshi Kurosawa science fiction drama Foreboding on Wowow. In 2018 Kishii took on roles in two NHK dramas: the drama , as middle school teacher Shiori Mochozuki; She also appeared in the Fuji TV adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Filmography Film

Television

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work(s) Result202043rd Japan Academy Film PrizeNewcomer of the YearJust Only Love 202175th Mainichi Film AwardsBest Supporting ActressLiving in Your Sky 202377th Mainichi Film AwardsBest ActressSmall, Slow But Steady 65th Blue Ribbon AwardsBest ActressSmall, Slow But Steady and One Day, You Will Reach the Sea 46th Japan Academy Film PrizeBest ActressSmall, Slow But Steady 96th Kinema Junpo AwardsBest ActressSmall, Slow But Steady and others 47th Elan d'or AwardsNewcomer of the YearHerself 36th Nikkan Sports Film AwardsBest ActressSmall, Slow But Steady 202445th Yokohama Film FestivalBest Actress