is a Japanese actress. She has played Taka in the 55th

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taiga drama ''

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'', Sari Ishikawa in the film '' Pink and Gray'', and Taka Kōda in the 99th NHK

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'', among numerous other TV and film roles. Her lead performance in the 2017 film ''Goodbye, Grandpa!'' earned a Best Newcomer Award at the 39th

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Biography

Kishii was born in 1992 in

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, Japan. She made her acting debut in 2009 as elementary school student Nana Sakurai in the drama '. 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

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film ', as well as the supporting role of Kanako in the TBS drama '. 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 ', and Chieko Matsuda, a teenager whose classmate seeks to impress her by getting a driver's license, in a film adaptation of the

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'. She also appeared in film adaptations of the debut

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novel '' Pink and Gray'' and the

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novel ', and played the role of Taka, Nobushige's third wife, in the 55th NHK taiga drama ''

''. Kishii's first lead film role came in the 2017 Yukihiro Morigaki film ' as Yoshiko Haruno, the granddaughter of a recently deceased family patriarch. Sarah Ward of ''

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'' 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

. That same year she played Sumire Michibata in the TBS television series ' and Miyuki Asakawa in the

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science fiction drama '' Foreboding'' on Wowow. In 2018 Kishii took on roles in two NHK dramas: the drama ', as middle school teacher Shiori Mochozuki; and ''

'', the 99th NHK

, as Taka Kōda. She also appeared in the

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adaptation of ''

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''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kishii, Yukino 21st-century Japanese actresses 1992 births Living people Actresses from Kanagawa Prefecture