Rio Kanno

Acting

Rio Kanno

Born 1993-09-25 · Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Rio Kanno (菅野 莉央, Kanno Rio, September 25, 1993) is a Japanese actress (former child actress) and talent from Saitama Prefecture. She is affiliated with Amuse.

Acting credits

Howl's Moving Castle poster
8.4

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

Howl's Moving Castle

2004

Dark Water poster
6.8

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

Dark Water

2002

True Beauty: The Movie - Part 2 poster
8.0

Reina's beauty and dreams dazzle, but her bare face exposes hidden truths as Shun and Yu vie for her heart, stirring tension and racing emotions.

True Beauty: The Movie - Part 2

2025

Noroi: The Curse poster
6.9

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

Noroi: The Curse

2005

KINKI poster
6.3

After an editor of an occult magazine suddenly vanishes, his friend Chihiro and his co-worker Yusei set out to discover the reason behind his disappearance.

KINKI

2025

Hell's Garden poster
6.8

Naoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady (OL). Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce fights among different cliques. Other OLs are absorbed in the daily clique fighting. One day, due to an OL at the company, Naoko Tanaka's company is targeted by OL from all over Japan.

Hell's Garden

2021

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World poster
7.3

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

2004

I Love Thee for Good poster
5.7

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance...

I Love Thee for Good

2009

恋に唄えば♪ poster
9.0

A young department store worker discovers a magical lantern which contains the spirit of Tsuboi, a genie who has just one last chance to help someone on Earth.

恋に唄えば♪

2002

Ten Nights of Dreams poster
6.3

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.

Ten Nights of Dreams

2007

Stray Dogz 2 poster
NR

Tadaomy works as a loan shark. He hires Tukasa to work for him. One day, Tadaomy’s debtor, Okabayashi, asks to borrow two million yen more. Tadaomy trusts Okabayashi who has payed back sincerely, but Okabayashi suddenly disappears.

Stray Dogz 2

2016

The Town of Headcounts poster
6.8

Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It’s a perpetual holiday resort where every need is catered to but hidden in it is a sinister conspiracy.

The Town of Headcounts

2020

Lenses on Her Heart poster
7.0

Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfriend who has a limited amount of time left to live.

Lenses on Her Heart

2018

Sacrifice Dilemma poster
NR

It's graduation day. Junichi Shinohara shows up at school following a prolonged absence, to find a gigantic "pit" dug in the middle of the campus and all his classmates gathered in the classroom. Then, a strange message comes over the PA system. "In one hour, everyone will die. There is only one way to survive. You must offer a sacrifice." At first, Shinohara, Rika Suzuki and others think it's some sort of bad joke. But when the first victim is claimed, they realize it's a terrifying reality...

Sacrifice Dilemma

2013

うちの弁護士はまたしても手がかかる poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

うちの弁護士はまたしても手がかかる

2026

ふたつの昨日と僕の未来 poster
NR

Kaito was a marathon runner and hoped to compete in the Olympics. He gave up those dreams after an injury. Kaito now works in city hall and just drifts through his days. His girlfriend Marino leaves him. One day, he goes to the mountain as a tourist guide. Heavy rain passes over the area. Kaito finds a mysterious mine and enters the mine to stay dry, but Kaito suddenly finds himself outside of the mine. The rain is gone and his memory is different now. Kaito has won a gold medal in the Olympics and he is still with Marino.

ふたつの昨日と僕の未来

2018

Sacrifice Dilemma: Second Part poster
6.0

A high school graduating class is forced into a sadistic game threatening certain death to all unless they offer one of their own as sacrifice.

Sacrifice Dilemma: Second Part

2013

When I Kill Myself poster
4.7

Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10, the children are then give a detonator with a red switch. They are told if they press the switch they will die immediately. Most of the children under the experiment, eventually presses the switch and dies. After the completion of the experiment 6 kids remain who did not press the switch. The 6 kids are; strong-minded Masami, weak Naoto, hot-tempered Hiro, impulsive Ryota, wheelchair bound Kimiaki and Aiko who is always thinking of her parents. These 6 kids survived even though they were pressured by project manager Tsukuda to press the switch.

When I Kill Myself

2011

RUN!-3films- poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

RUN!-3films-

2019

Ichiban kirei na mizu poster
NR

The story is a variation on the Tom Hanks classic "Big," but instead of a boy finding himself in a man's body, a sick girl falls asleep one day and does not wake up again for 11 years. In the meantime, her baby sister, Natsumi (Rio Kanno), grows up to become a very studious and serious 12-year-old, studying hard at her summer juku (cram school). When her aunt, a free-spirited photographer (Karie Kahimi), goes missing in South America, her mildly scatter-brained mother (Kaho Minami) and father (Tetsuji Tanaka) go looking for her, leaving the girl, Natsumi, to look after her sleeping sibling, Ai (Rosa Kato). Yes, this is a clear case of child neglect, but Natsumi is such a no-nonsense, responsible type that it seems almost understandable. Soon after Mom and Dad leave, she notices that Ai, incredibly, is up and about, with the body of a woman, but the mind of an 8-year-old.

Ichiban kirei na mizu

2006

Grown-ups poster
6.7

Yumi (Mai Kiryu), studying design at university, is dating Naoya (Kisetsu Fujiwara), a member of the theatre society, when one day she learns that she's pregnant. She tells Naoya, who dreams of owning his own theatre company in the future. The more they face reality, the more they seem to be at odds with one another...

Grown-ups

2021

A Cold poster
NR

One late summer day, Yuko catches a cold and misses school. She waits for someone in an unfamiliar neighborhood until sunset.

A Cold

2014

One Cut in the Life poster
NR

A rampage at a university, the students Yuka and Mai are frozen with fear. At gunpoint, the two perpetrators try to force them to decide which of them must die next. In a moment of distraction, Mai tries to escape but is badly injured by a shot in the back. After the killers have moved on, a student, Hayashi Yuka, comes to the rescue. But even as they try to save Mai together, the killers return. Hayashi is driven to an act of desperation that leaves him with deep wounds.

One Cut in the Life

2020

Sacrifice Dilemma: Last Part poster
NR

In the final act, the students agonize over their seemingly inevitable fate as they try to figure out why they've been trapped in this gruesome game.

Sacrifice Dilemma: Last Part

2013