# Yukino Kishii

Yukino Kishii (岸井 ゆきの, Kishii Yukino, born 11 February 1992) is a Japanese actress. She has played Taka in the 55th NHK taiga drama Sanada Maru, Sari Ishikawa in the film Pink and Gray, and Taka Kōda in the 99th NHK asadora Manpuku, among numerous other TV and film roles. Her lead performance in the 2017 film Goodbye, Grandpa! earned a Best Newcomer Award at the 39th Yokohama Film Festival.

## Biography

Kishii was born in 1992 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She made her acting debut in 2009 as elementary school student Nana Sakurai in the drama Princess Sara (小公女セイラ, Shōkōjo Seira). After a series of minor film and TV appearances, in 2015 she played the role of Taeko Hakozaki, a girl whose friend falls in love with Taeko's father, in the Kenji Yamauchi film I Love My Friend's Father (友だちのパパが好き, Tomodachi no papa ga suki), as well as the supporting role of Kanako in the TBS drama 99.9 Criminal Lawyer (99.9-刑事専門弁護士-, 99.9: Keiji senmon bengoshi).
The next year Kishii landed several more TV and film roles. Her film roles included Yumika, an ex-girlfriend of a photographer whose rock star subject becomes attracted to her, in Grab the Sun (太陽を掴め, Taiyou wo tsukame), and Chieko Matsuda, a teenager whose classmate seeks to impress her by getting a driver's license, in a film adaptation of the manga Moriyamachu Driving School (森山中教習所, Moriyama kyōshūjo). She also appeared in film adaptations of the debut Shigeaki Kato novel Pink and Gray and the Mariko Koike novel Double Life (二重生活, Nijyū seikatsu), and played the role of Taka, Nobushige's third wife, in the 55th NHK taiga drama Sanada Maru.
Kishii's first lead film role came in the 2017 Yukihiro Morigaki film Goodbye, Grandpa! (おじいちゃん、死んじゃったって, Ojiichan, shinjyattatte) as Yoshiko Haruno, the granddaughter of a recently deceased family patriarch. Sarah Ward of Screen Daily described her performance as "especially impressive, her wise-beyond-her-years demeanour helping to flesh out a protagonist largely tasked with observing everyone around her". Kishii's performance in Goodbye, Grandpa! won her a Best Newcomer Award at the 39th Yokohama Film Festival. That same year she played Sumire Michibata in the TBS television series Rental Lovers (レンタルの恋, Rentaru no koi) and Miyuki Asakawa in the Kiyoshi Kurosawa science fiction drama Foreboding on Wowow. In 2018 Kishii took on roles in two NHK dramas: the drama School Lawyer (やけに弁の立つ弁護士が学校でほえる, Yakeni ben no tatsu bengoshi ga gakkō de hoeru), as middle school teacher Shiori Mochozuki; and Manpuku, the 99th NHK asadora, as Taka Kōda. She also appeared in the Fuji TV adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.

## Filmography
### Film

| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
| Her Father, My Lover | 2015 | Taeko Hakozaki | |
| Moriyamachu Driving School | 2016 | Chieko Matsuda | |
| Double Life | 2016 | Ayaka | |
| Pink and Gray | 2016 | Sari Ishikawa | |
| Grab the Sun | 2016 | Yumika | |
| Goodbye, Grandpa! | 2017 | Yoshiko Haruno | Lead role |
| Just Only Love | 2018 | Teruko | Lead role |
| Project Dream: How to Build Mazinger Z's Hangar | 2020 | Emoto | |
| State of Emergency | 2020 | | Lead role; anthology film |
| Living in the Sky | 2020 | Aiko | |
| Homunculus | 2021 | Mysterious woman | |
| The Supporting Actors: The Movie | 2021 | Herself | |
| 99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie | 2021 | Kanako | |
| One Day, You Will Reach the Sea | 2022 | Mana | Lead role |
| Dreaming of the Meridian Arc | 2022 | Toyomi Yasuno / Toyo | |
| Small, Slow But Steady | 2022 | Keiko | Lead role |
| God Seeks in Return | 2022 | Yuri Kawai | |
| Everything Will Be Owlright! | 2022 | Hiyori Tamura | |
| The Young Strangers | 2024 | | |
| At the Bench | 2024 | | Lead role; anthology film |
| Sato and Sato | 2025 | Sachi Sato | Lead role |

### Television

| Title | Year | Role | Network | Notes |
| Shōkōjo Seira | 2009 | Nana Sakurai | TBS | |
| 99.9 Criminal Lawyer | 2015 | Kanako | TBS | |
| Sanada Maru | 2016 | Taka | NHK | Taiga drama |
| Foreboding | 2017 | Miyuki Asakawa | Wowow | Miniseries |
| Rental Lover | 2017 | Sumire Michibata | TBS | |
| School Lawyer | 2018 | Shiori Mochozuki | NHK | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo: Great Revenge | 2018 | Miran Iruma | Fuji TV | |
| Manpuku | 2018 | Taka Kōda | NHK | Asadora |
| Ōoku the Final | 2019 | Taki | Fuji TV | Television film |
| Shōnen Torajirō | 2019 | Tsune Kuruma | NHK | Miniseries |
| Yume-Shokudō no Ryōrinin | 2019 | Michiko | NHK | Television film |
| Cursed in Love | 2020 | Shiori Hase | NTV | |
| Lost Man Found | 2022 | Yoshiko | Disney+, NHK | |
| The Aromantics | 2022 | Sakuko Kodama | NHK | Lead role |
| Atom's Last Shot | 2022 | Umi Tominaga | TBS | |
| At Least On Sunday Night | 2023 | Shōko Noda | TV Asahi | |
| Ōoku: The Inner Chambers | 2023 | Kazunomiya | NHK | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work(s) | Result |
| 2020 | 43rd Japan Academy Film Prize | Newcomer of the Year | Just Only Love | Won |
| 2021 | 75th Mainichi Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Living in Your Sky | Nominated |
| 2022 | 47th Hochi Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Dreaming of the Meridian Arc and Everything Will Be Owlright! | Nominated |
| 2023 | 77th Mainichi Film Awards | Best Actress | Small, Slow But Steady | Won |
| 2023 | 65th Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Actress | Small, Slow But Steady and One Day, You Will Reach the Sea | Nominated |
| 2023 | 46th Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Actress | Small, Slow But Steady | Won |
| 2023 | 96th Kinema Junpo Awards | Best Actress | Small, Slow But Steady and others | Won |
| 2023 | 47th Elan d'or Awards | Newcomer of the Year | Herself | Won |
| 2023 | 36th Nikkan Sports Film Awards | Best Actress | Small, Slow But Steady | Nominated |
| 2024 | 45th Yokohama Film Festival | Best Actress | Small, Slow But Steady | Won |