Tae Kimura

Tae Kimura (木村 多江, Kimura Tae; born March 16, 1971) is a Japanese actress.^[1] She won the Best Actress award at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize for All Around Us.^[2]

Tae Kimura
木村 多江
Born	(1971-03-16) March 16, 1971 (age 54) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995—present
Agent	Yūgō Jimusho

Biography

Kimura starred in Ryosuke Hashiguchi's All Around Us.^[3] Her performance in the film was described by Jason Gray as "one of the most accurate portrayals of someone suffering from depression I've ever seen."^[4]

She co-starred in Isshin Inudo's Zero Focus with Miki Nakatani and Ryōko Hirosue,^[5] and starred in Makoto Shinozaki's Tokyo Island.^[6]

She appeared in Miwa Nishikawa's Dreams for Sale.^[7][8]

Filmography

Films

• Hana and Alice (2004)^[9]
• Infection (2004) – 2nd nurse^[10]
• All About My Dog (2005)
• Densha Otoko (2005)
• Oh! Oku (2006)
• Kaidan (2007)^[11]
• All Around Us (2008)
• Shizumanu Taiyō (2009)^[12]
• Zero Focus (2009)
• Tokyo Island (2010)
• Yoake no Machi de (2011)
• Dreams for Sale (2012)
• Monsterz (2014)^[13]
• The Case of Hana & Alice (2015)
• Have a Song on Your Lips (2015)^[14]
• Gold Medal Man (2016)
• Kōfuku no Alibi (2016)
• Cat Collector's House (2017)
• Yurigokoro (2017)
• Homecoming (2017) – Sayoko^[15]
• Good-Bye (2020) – Shizue Tajima^[16]
• Not Quite Dead Yet (2020)
• The Supporting Actors: The Movie (2021), Herself^[17]
• Your Turn to Kill: The Movie (2021)^[18]
• Cottontail (2022) – Akiko^[19]
• Prior Convictions (2022) – Emma Miyaguchi^[20]
• My Home Hero: The Movie (2024), Kasen Tosu^[21]
• 90 Years Old – So What? (2024), Mariko Kikkawa^[22]
• The Final Piece (2025), Yoshiko Karasawa^[23]
• The Last Man: The Blind Profiler – First Love (2025)^[24]

Television

• Ring: The Final Chapter (1999)^[9]
• Unfair (2006)
• Masshiro (2015)^[25]
• Antarctica (2011), Furutachi Ayako
• Taira no Kiyomori (2012), Hotoke Gozen^[26]
• Daddy Sister (2016), Kimiko Kohashi
• Your Turn to Kill (2019), Sanae Enomoto^[18]
• 24 Japan (2020), Rikka Shidō
• Involvement in Family Affairs (2022), Kumi Miyama^[27]
• Last Man:The Blind Profiler (2023), Deborah Jean Hongō^[28]
• What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023), Nabe^[29]
• My Home Hero (2023), Kasen Tosu^[21]
• The Last Man: The Blind Profiler (2023)^[24]
• Alice in Wonderful Kitchen (2024), Makiko Gojō^[30]
• House of Ninjas (2024), Yoko Tawara^[31]
• Happy Kanako's Killer Life (2025), Kanako's mother^[32]