Yukino Kishii

Yukino Kishii is 151 cm tall and somehow occupies the entire frame. Her 2023 was absurd: Best Actress at the Japan Academy Film Prize, the Mainichi Film Award and Kinema Junpo, essentially everything the country hands out, for Small, Slow But Steady. What I admire is not the trophy shelf but the choices underneath it. Just Only Love asked her to play someone needy, unflattering and hard to root for, and she refused to sand the edges off. Performers willing to look bad on camera are rarer than they ought to be. Born in Hadano, Kanagawa in 1992, she took a Newcomer prize in 2020 and a Best Actress three years later, which is a very short climb by any standard. One Day, You Will Reach the Sea and the series Koisenu Futari suggest she keeps picking scripts with something actually at stake. I suspect her best work is still ahead.

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Name (English)

Yukino Kishii

Name (Japanese)

岸井ゆきの

Reading

きしい ゆきの

Born

February 11, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

151 cm

Occupation

actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Monkey

Blood type

AB

Active years

2009 -

Awards & achievements

• 2023 Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
• 2023 Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress
• 2023 Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress
• 2023 Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year
• 2020 Japan Academy Prize for Newcomer of the Year

Works summary

Appearances

143 (2009–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

2009: 1, 2010: 2, 2011: 6, 2012: 7, 2013: 6, 2014: 14, 2015: 10, 2016: 21, 2017: 10, 2018: 9, 2019: 11, 2020: 9, 2021: 9, 2022: 9, 2023: 3, 2024: 5, 2025: 4, 2026: 3, year unknown: 4

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.humanite.co.jp/actor.html?lang=en&id=10
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yukino_kishii/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukino%20Kishii
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E4%BA%95%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D%E3%81%AE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11475780

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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