38 Rinko Kikuchi Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

This comedy drama film revolves around the Haruno family, who lives in a small town in rural Japan, on the north side of Tokyo. The father Nobua is a hypnotist while the mother Yoshiko works as an artist. Their son Hajime is having a rough time with puberty, and falls for a girl in his school. Meanwhile, their daughter periodically sees her own gigantic doppelganger following her through town.

The lives of five people, who seem to have no connection to one another, get intertwined, which results in unexpected circumstances.

The reckless son of a Moroccan shepherd accidentally shoots an American woman vacationing with her husband, which the media describes as a terrorist attack. The couple's nanny, forced to take their children with her to Mexico to attend her son's wedding, is stopped at the border, while a traumatized deaf Japanese girl is questioned about her father's missing rifle.

This sci-fi monster film takes us to a time in the future when the Earth is at war with colossal sea monsters known as Kaiju. To combat them, humans create gigantic humanoid machines known as the Jaegers. The film revolves around the story of Raleigh Becket, former pilot, and Mako Mori, his co-pilot, in their final efforts to destroy the Kaiju. 

The Brothers Bloom is a comedy-drama film, which tells the story of Stephen and Bloom, who are successful con men. However, Bloom wants to leave this business, but Stephen convinces him to pull off one final job, which involves an eccentric heiress. 

During the World War II, just before the Pearl Harbor attack, an American agent arrives in Shanghai, which at the time, was occupied by Japanese forces. When he learns that his friend Conner has been murdered, he tries to find out the mystery behind the death.

Young half-Japanese outcast Kai is rescued from the forest by benevolent Lord Asano Naganori and falls in love with his daughter Mika. Years later, when jealous neighboring lord, Kira, plots to force Asano to commit seppuku, 47 master-less warriors, led by Tengu-raised fighter Kai, plan to avenge Lord Asano and rescue Mika from the clutches of Lord Kira.

Set in 2035, the film is a sequel to Pacific Rim and tells the story of Jake Pentecost, whose legendary father died to keep the humanity safe. Once a promising pilot, Jake now deals with stolen Jaeger parts. But when he receives a message from his sister, the PPDC Secretary General, he gives up his life of crime to save the humanity from an even bigger threat.