Kirin Kiki is a revered Japanese actress with over 100 film and television credits. Winner of two Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actress for films Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, Sometimes Dad (2011) and Chronicles of my Mother (2011) and over a dozen Best Supporting Actress awards in Japan and internationally, Kiki has received two high national honours from the Japanese government. A collaborator with Japanese auteur and APSA Academy member Hirokazu Koreeda on the films Our Little Sister (2015) Like Father, Like Son (2013) I Wish (2011) and Still Walking (2008), Kiki is widely known for her role in Studio Ghibli’s The Secret World of Arietty (2010). In An she stars alongside her granddaughter Kyara Uchida.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
