Akiko Kikuchi

Acting

Akiko Kikuchi

Born

1982-08-26 (44)

Place of birth

Oono, Gifu, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Akiko Kikuchi is a fashion model and actress from Oonocho, Japan.

Known for

Sins of Kujo poster
7.6

From thugs to yakuza, Taiza Kujo wields the law to defend society's worst. Fellow lawyer, Karasuma doubts his ethics but joins him in facing the abyss.

Sins of Kujo

2026

News Anchor poster
7.6

Promoted to lead anchor of a struggling news program, a journalist pushes the boundaries to investigate and expose truths others want buried.

News Anchor

2025

シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

シリーズ・横溝正史短編集

2016

1122: For a Happy Marriage poster
5.8

Ichiko and Otoya are happily married, despite not having sex for the last two years. The secret to their happiness is Otoya's affair with Mitsuki, which Ichiko approves. Everything is going well until Otoya rejects Ichiko's advances on the night of their seventh anniversary. In shock, Ichiko seeks advice from her friend who suggests she exercise her right to have a boyfriend of her own.

1122: For a Happy Marriage

2024

Sky of Love: Someone I love is there poster
7.7

An ordinary senior high school girl named Mika meets Hiro, a showy boy with dyed hair and pierced ears. It is a "pure love" story of the two going through many unimaginably sad incidents while nurturing their love single-mindedly. It not only depicts the first love of the senior high school couple but also weaves "a story of Mika and Hiro" through episodes probably familiar to anybody, such as warmth and affection of their family members supporting the two, importance of living, interactions with friends, and so on.

Sky of Love: Someone I love is there

2008

Kitchen Knife and Green Chili Pepper poster
7.4

In Kyoto, soon after the war, Ichika strives to save her family's long established ryoten restaurant from financial crisis. In order to do so, she marries Yamaguchi Amane, who is 15 years younger, in a marriage of convenience.

Kitchen Knife and Green Chili Pepper

2023

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

Skeleton Flowers poster
6.2

High school student, Yo, lived with her father, Nao, after her mother, Sachiyo, left the family when she was very young. However, their life together came to an end and they started a new life as a family of four with her father's second marriage partner, Miko, and her stepdaughter, four-year-old Hinata. She confides in Riku, who belongs to the same art club as Yo, about her confusion about this new life. Yo, who has been developing curiosity for her biological mother, Sachiyo, promises to go with Riku to Sachiyo's art exhibition.

Skeleton Flowers

2021

Between Us poster
NR

Estranged after a past incident, Makoto and Kasumi reunite in their high school drama club. Through acting, they rebuild their friendship.

Between Us

2026

Arrogance and Virtue poster
6.9

The story centers on Kakeru Nishizawa and Mami Sakaniwa, two people who find each other through a dating app, and decide soon after to get engaged. After their engagement, Mami suddenly disappears. In trying to find her, Kakeru must confront a side of Mami's past that he might not have wanted to know.

Arrogance and Virtue

2024

Otona Najimi poster
6.0

Aoyama Haru and Kagaya Kaede have been friends since they were 4 years old, when they began living next door to each other. They are now 24-years-old and still live in the same apartments. Kaede has held feelings for Haru for the past 20 years, but Haru doesn’t seem to realize her feelings for him. She talks about this situation with her childhood friends Iori and Mio and decides to give up on her feelings for Haru. But, it's not easy for Kaede to disconnect her feelings for him. Meanwhile, Iori has liked Kaede since he was an elementary school student. He approaches her. Seeing this, Haru becomes disturbed. In fact, Haru made a promise with Kaede’s late mother and he is honoring it.

Otona Najimi

2023

Brand New Landscape poster
4.4

In bustling Tokyo, Ren delivers delicate orchids across the city, carrying the weight of his mother's absence and years of silence between him and his father, until one delivery changes everything.

Brand New Landscape

2025

2010s · 12 titles

Chronicle of My Mother poster
6.6

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

Chronicle of My Mother

2012

Midnight Diner poster
7.7

A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.

Midnight Diner

2014

Haruko Azumi Is Missing poster
6.5

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template which is painted on each wall of a small suburban town.

Haruko Azumi Is Missing

2016

The Days of Morisaki Bookstore poster
7.0

After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another colleague, Takako quits her job and falls into a slump. Her uncle, Satoru, offers her a job and room in his used bookstore in Jinbocho. Despite her initial lack of interest, Takako is slowly drawn into the world of books through contact with the customers who frequent the store.

The Days of Morisaki Bookstore

2010

遠い日のゆくえ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

遠い日のゆくえ

2011

Second Summer, Never See You Again poster
6.5

Satoshi, who is a high school junior, is doing something against the rules. He is forming a band. Joining him is Rin. They nonetheless perform at the school's cultural festival live in front of their fellow students. There is a mishap and Satoshi travels back in time to the moment when he met Rin.

Second Summer, Never See You Again

2017

There Is No Lid on the Sea poster
4.8

Mari is exhausted by life in the city and opens up a shop selling snow cones in the small town of Nishiizu where she grew up. The simple flavors of her cold desserts soothe the emotional wounds of her customers and Mari comes to terms with herself by spending time with a young woman with a scarred face.

There Is No Lid on the Sea

2015

Good Stripes poster
7.0

Midori Mantani and Masao Minamisawa are both 28-years-old. They have dated for 4 years, but their relationship seems to be just going through the motions. They think about breaking up. At that time, Midori becomes pregnant. Midori and Masao decide to marry. While preparing for their wedding, they become more familiar with each other's background. Midori Mantani grew up with parents who ran an iron factory in a provincial city that didn't offer much in terms of culture. Unlike Midori, Masao Minamisawa grew up in Tokyo and his family was wealthy. His father worked as a photographer and his mother was a doctor. He now works as a web designer. The couple begin to have a better understanding of each other.

Good Stripes

2015

Fa no tofu poster
NR

This drama depicts the turbulent daily life of the heroine, who works in the family's tofu shop, and her father and daughter.

Fa no tofu

2011

No artwork available
NR

Tatsuya and Yoko promised to marry, but Yoko then died in a car accident. Tatsuya quit his job and spends his days thinking about suicide. One day, Tatsuya meets Yuri Takahashi, who looks exactly like Yoko. They then go on a road trip.

Route 42

2012

No artwork available
NR

28-year-old Towa Hongo works as a research worker at a painting company. 10 years ago, she came to Tokyo from Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture. At an early age, her father Yukio died and her mother remarried, but her relationship with her mother worsened. They have not talked for a long time.

Yodaka's Star

2012

Mame Daifuku Monogatari poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mame Daifuku Monogatari

2013

Series credits

Sins of Kujo poster
7.6

From thugs to yakuza, Taiza Kujo wields the law to defend society's worst. Fellow lawyer, Karasuma doubts his ethics but joins him in facing the abyss.

Sins of Kujo

2026

News Anchor poster
7.6

Promoted to lead anchor of a struggling news program, a journalist pushes the boundaries to investigate and expose truths others want buried.

News Anchor

2025

シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

シリーズ・横溝正史短編集

2016

1122: For a Happy Marriage poster
5.8

Ichiko and Otoya are happily married, despite not having sex for the last two years. The secret to their happiness is Otoya's affair with Mitsuki, which Ichiko approves. Everything is going well until Otoya rejects Ichiko's advances on the night of their seventh anniversary. In shock, Ichiko seeks advice from her friend who suggests she exercise her right to have a boyfriend of her own.

1122: For a Happy Marriage

2024

Sky of Love: Someone I love is there poster
7.7

An ordinary senior high school girl named Mika meets Hiro, a showy boy with dyed hair and pierced ears. It is a "pure love" story of the two going through many unimaginably sad incidents while nurturing their love single-mindedly. It not only depicts the first love of the senior high school couple but also weaves "a story of Mika and Hiro" through episodes probably familiar to anybody, such as warmth and affection of their family members supporting the two, importance of living, interactions with friends, and so on.

Sky of Love: Someone I love is there

2008

Kitchen Knife and Green Chili Pepper poster
7.4

In Kyoto, soon after the war, Ichika strives to save her family's long established ryoten restaurant from financial crisis. In order to do so, she marries Yamaguchi Amane, who is 15 years younger, in a marriage of convenience.

Kitchen Knife and Green Chili Pepper

2023

Quartet poster
8.0

Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big hidden secret.

Quartet

2017

Two People Who Can't Fall in Love poster
9.0

About two people who are aromantic and asexual and begin living together. Sakiko finds it difficult to live in a society which operates under the assumption that people will fall in love with each other. She meets supermarket employee Takahashi when she goes to support a "fall-in-love" campaign by her junior at work. She is startled when she hears him say that there are people who don't fall in love. As Sakiko's mother keeps hurrying her to get married, she decides to move out and rent an apartment with her friend but her friend backs out at the last minute after reconciling with her ex-boyfriend. Just when Sakiko is about to give up, she ends up living with Takahashi under one roof because of their similar values towards romance.

Two People Who Can't Fall in Love

2022

Hana Sugisaki's Filming Break poster
7.5

Depicts how Hana Sugisaki spends her days off during breaks in shooting dramas and movies.

Hana Sugisaki's Filming Break

2023

Hana Sugisaki's Filming Break poster
7.5

Depicts how Hana Sugisaki spends her days off during breaks in shooting dramas and movies.

Hana Sugisaki's Filming Break

2023

Makanai-sō poster
6.0

Located in the downtown area of ​​Nagoya, this 60-year-old, bath and toilet co-op accommodation is a room with no room, "Makanai-sō".

Makanai-sō

2016

By the age of 30 poster
5.0

A humorous and bitter depiction of the real worries, impatience, and anger of a woman living in these times. Follow the love, career and sex lives of 29-year-old single women who try to survive in modern Tokyo.

By the age of 30

2022

PU- PU- PU- poster
8.0

Despite coming from completely different backgrounds, the three of them share one thing in common: none of them can get along with their fathers. They meet for the first time on their way to study abroad in LA, each having left home for his own reasons. Soon after they arrive, they discover they've been scammed, leaving them broke and stranded in a foreign city. Will they swallow their pride and go home to their fathers, or find a way to make it on their own?

PU- PU- PU-

1998

Hana's Lazy Meals poster
7.5

The story is about the daily life of a 30-year-old new wife, Hana, who cooks “Zubora Meshi”, while her husband is on a job transfer away from home. ”Zubora-Meshi” is the corner-cutting and easy cooking people usually cook only for themselves to eat.

Hana's Lazy Meals

2012

Kokoro's "Tee-hee-hee!" poster
6.5

Getting from Junior High School to High School could be a whole different world. This short, simple nine-episode miniseries is about the transition, witnessed from the eyes of three new high schoolers.

Kokoro's "Tee-hee-hee!"

2021