Tae Kimura

Tae Kimura (木村 多江, Kimura Tae, born March 16, 1971) is a Japanese actress.[1] She won the Best Actress award at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize for All Around Us.[2]

Tae Kimura
木村 多江
Born	March 16, 1971 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995—present
Agent	Yūgō Jimusho
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)

Biography

Kimura starred in Ryosuke Hashiguchi's All Around Us.[3] Her performance in the film was described by Jason Gray as "one of the most accurate portrayals of someone suffering from depression I've ever seen."[4]

She co-starred in Isshin Inudo's Zero Focus with Miki Nakatani and Ryōko Hirosue,[5] and starred in Makoto Shinozaki's Tokyo Island.[6]

She appeared in Miwa Nishikawa's Dreams for Sale.[7][8]

Filmography

Films

• Hana and Alice (2004)
• Infection (2004) – 2nd nurse[9]
• All About My Dog (2005)
• Densha Otoko (2005)
• Oh! Oku (2006)
• Kaidan (2007)[10]
• All Around Us (2008)
• Shizumanu Taiyō (2009)[11]
• Zero Focus (2009)
• Tokyo Island (2010)
• Yoake no Machi de (2011)
• Dreams for Sale (2012)
• Monsterz (2014)[12]
• The Case of Hana & Alice (2015)
• Have a Song on Your Lips (2015)[13]
• Gold Medal Man (2016)
• Kōfuku no Alibi (2016)
• Cat Collector's House (2017)
• Yurigokoro (2017)
• Bōkyō (2017) – Sayoko
• Good-Bye (2020)[14]
• Not Quite Dead Yet (2020)
• The Supporting Actors: The Movie (2021) – Herself[15]

Television

• Ring: The Final Chapter (1999)
• Unfair (2006)
• Masshiro (2015)[16]
• Toto Neechan (2016), Kimiko Kohashi
• 24 Japan (2020), Rikka Shidō

References

1. 木村多江 プロフィール [Agent profile] (in Japanese). Yougo Office. Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
2. 第32回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 [32nd Japan Academy Prize] (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. 20 February 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
3. Schilling, Mark (12 June 2008). "One man, two worlds - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
4. Gray, Jason (2 February 2009). "Midnight Eye feature: Midnight Eye's Best (and Worst) of 2008". Midnight Eye.
5. Chang, Dustin (11 July 2010). "JAPAN CUTS 2010: ZERO FOCUS Review - Twitch". Twitch Film. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
6. Lee, Maggie (28 December 2011). "Tokyo Island: Film Review - The Hollywood Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter.
7. Lee, Maggie (24 September 2012). "Dreams for Sale - Variety". Variety.
8. Schilling, Mark (7 September 2012). "'Yume Uru Futari (Dreams for Sale)' - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
9. Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. p. 434. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.
10. 怪談. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
11. 沈まぬ太陽. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
12. 映画『ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲＺ モンスターズ』公式サイト [Monsterz Official website] (in Japanese). Warner Bros. Pictures. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
13. くちびるに歌を. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
14. "グッドバイ　嘘からはじまる人生喜劇". eiga.com. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
15. "映画「バイプレイヤーズ」の新キャスト8名解禁！有村架純、天海祐希、役所広司ら". Natalie. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
16. 火曜ドラマ『まっしろ』TBSテレビ (in Japanese). Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. Retrieved 2015-05-12.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Tae Kimura at IMDb
• Tae Kimura at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)