Yoshino Kimura

Who is Yoshino Kimura?

Yoshino Kimura is a Japanese actress and former idol singer. She appeared on an episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror. Kimura won the "Rookie of the Year" prize at the 21st Japan Academy Awards for her appearance in Shitsurakuen.

Kimura appeared as Shizuka in the recent spaghetti-western Sukiyaki Western Django. As of 25 June 2007 she is slated to star in a new Japanese soap opera to be set in Australia. Kimura also voiced Master Tiger in the Japanese dub of Kung Fu Panda and appears in Blindness as the First Blind Man's Wife. On 24 October 2010 she married Noriyuki Higashiyama.

In 2007, Kimura took the title role in a TV Asahi tanpatsu, entitled Teresa Teng Monogatari, portraying the late Taiwanese superstar, who was popular throughout Asia.

She played Kazusa Monzen and Aoi Monzen in the 2008 film Orochi: Blood.

She also did the voice of Claire Folley in the Professor Layton And The Last Time Travel game.