Rinko Kikuchi
Yakusho next won the Hochi Film Award for Best Actor for "Bounce Ko Gals", a film which dealt with high school prostitution specifically, and money worship in general. He collaborated with horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa in "Cure", "License to Live", "Seance", "Charisma", "Pulse", "Doppelganger", "Retribution", and "Tokyo Sonata". Yakusho found further recognition with international audiences to some extent with roles in such films as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Babel." In the latter, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, he played the father of the deaf-mute played by Rinko Kikuchi.