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Kiki Sugino

Biography

Kiki Sugino, born as Seo Yeong Hwa, is an actress and producer. Sugino was born in Hiroshima, Japan to Korean parents (Japanese-born Koreans are known in Japan as "Zainichi Koreans"). She made her debut as an actress in Korea in the 2005 film "One Shining Day".

Kim Ki Duk cast her in a small role in his 2006 film "Time". Sugino later returned to Japan where she made her acting debut with Tetsuo Shinohara's 2008 film "Clearness".

Sugino has gone beyond being only a performer and has become a producer, starting her own company Wa Entertainment and producing her most recent films. Besides Magic and Loss, Sugino has also produced and starred in Tokyo-based Malaysian director Edmund Yeo's short film Exhalation and Koji Fukada's feature Hospitalité, both 2010 films.

Known For

Tiger is Strolling Around
Tiger is Strolling Around
Hospitalité
Hospitalité
Kyoto Elegy
Kyoto Elegy
Odayaka
Odayaka
Chigasaki Story
Chigasaki Story
Time
Time
Kinki
Kinki
Taksu
Taksu
Au revoir l'été
Au revoir l'été
Kalayaan
Kalayaan

Filmography

2021 Love Mooning
as Ayako Mizuno
2021 Tiger is Strolling Around
as Kitsumi (voice)
2020 Town Without Sea
as Sho's Mother
2020 I Want to Be Loved
as Tomoyo
2020 21st Century Girl
as (segment "Anytime, anywhere")
2019 A Picture With Yuki
as Yuki
2019 Jeux de plage
as
2016 Snow Woman
as Yuki on'na
2015 Gunjōiro no, tōrimichi
as Yuika Kurata
2014 Chigasaki Story
as Maki
2014 Kinki
as Sala Asai
2014 Taksu
as Kumi
2014 Kyoto Elegy
as Satomi
2014 Short Plays
as
2013 Au revoir l'été
as Tatsuko
2013 The Intermission
as
2012 Odayaka
as Saeko
2012 Kalayaan
as Mermaid 2
2011 Two Rabbits in Osaka
as Woman
2011 Hospitalité
as Natsuki