is an actress and singer. In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted

Japanese abbreviated and contracted words

Abbreviated and contracted words are a common feature of Japanese. Long words are often contracted into shorter forms, which then become the predominant forms. For example, the University of Tokyo, in Japanese Tōkyō Daigaku becomes , Tōdai, and "remote control", rimōto kontorōrā , becomes rimokon....

 to the nickname Fukakyon. She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival

Yokohama Film Festival

The is a noticed yearly awards ceremony held in Japan. The festival was started as a small affair by fans and film critics, and first held on February 3, 1980. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year, and various awards are given to personnel...

 for Kamikaze Girls

Kamikaze Girls

is a 2002 light novel written by Novala Takemoto that has been adapted into a manga and film.Kamikaze Girls centers around two students, Momoko Ryugasaki and Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuri , who are from completely different backgrounds: one is a Lolita girl, the other, her gyaru antithesis, a Yankī...

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Career

Fukada Kyoko debuted in 1997 with her first appearance in the television drama Sore ga Kotae da! as Kazune. Fukada appeared in her first movie Ring 2

Ring 2

, directed by Hideo Nakata, is the sequel to the Japanese horror film, Ring.Ring was originally a novel written by Koji Suzuki; its sequel, Rasen , was also adapted into a movie as the Ring movie's sequel...

as Kanae Sawaguchi in 1999 and in later in School Day of the Dead, released in 2000, and Dolls

Dolls (film)

is a 2002 Japanese film written, edited and directed by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. A highly stylized art film, Dolls is part of Kitano's non-crime film oeuvre, like 1991's A Scene at the Sea, and unlike most of his other films, he does not act in it...

, released in 2002, as Haruna. Fukada is also a J-pop

J-pop

, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 singer and her debut single "The Last Fruit" led to her album Dear, both released in 1999.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Shinjuku Shōnen Tanteidan
1999	Ring 2 Ring 2 , directed by Hideo Nakata, is the sequel to the Japanese horror film, Ring.Ring was originally a novel written by Koji Suzuki; its sequel, Rasen , was also adapted into a movie as the Ring movie's sequel...	Kanae Sawaguchi
2000	Shisha no Gakuensai		Lead role
2001	Tokyo Zansu		Lead role
2002	Dolls Dolls (film) is a 2002 Japanese film written, edited and directed by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. A highly stylized art film, Dolls is part of Kitano's non-crime film oeuvre, like 1991's A Scene at the Sea, and unlike most of his other films, he does not act in it...	Haruna
2003	Onmyoji Onmyoji (film) is a Japanese movie that was released in 2001 and sent to the US in 2004. Directed by Yōjirō Takita, it tells of the exploits of Abe no Seimei, the Onmyoji from the court of the Emperor. He befriended bungling court noble, Minamoto no Hiromasa, who enlists his aid to defend the Heian emperor...  II
2003	Like Asura Like Asura is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. At the 27st Japan Academy Prize it won three awards and received ten other nominations.- Awards and nominations :27th Japan Academy Prize.*Won: Best Director - Yoshimitsu Morita...	Sakiko Jinnai
2004	Kamikaze Girls Kamikaze Girls is a 2002 light novel written by Novala Takemoto that has been adapted into a manga and film.Kamikaze Girls centers around two students, Momoko Ryugasaki and Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuri , who are from completely different backgrounds: one is a Lolita girl, the other, her gyaru antithesis, a Yankī...	Momoko Ryugasaki	Lead role
2006	Tenshi Tenshi Tenshi is a Japanese word for angel. It may also refer to:* The title of a 2006 film starring Kyoko Fukada....	Tenshi	Lead role
2006	Inugamike no Ichizoku
2009	Yatterman	Doronjo
2009	Ururu no Mori no Monogatari	Chie Shono
2010	Alice in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures...	White Queen	Japanese dub
2010	Renai Gikyoku: Watashi to Koi ni Ochite Kudasai		Lead role

Drama

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Five	Sanae Yodobashi/Kanae
1997	Sore ga Kotae da!	Kazune Mizuno
1998	News no Onna	Aya Uchida
1998	Kamisama, Mō Sukoshi Dake	Masaki Kano
1999	Oni no Sumika	Ayumi Kato	Lead role
1999	To Heart: Koishite Shinitai	Toko Miura
1999	Tengoku no Kiss	Mika Izumisawa
2000	Soshite, Tomodachi		Lead role, television special
2000	Imagine	Yu Iijima	Lead role with Hitomi Kuroki Hitomi Kuroki Hitomi Kuroki is a Japanese actress. Her real name is Shoko Ichiji née Egami ....
2000	Food Fight	Manami Tamura
2001	Strawberry on the Shortcake Strawberry on the Shortcake is a Japanese romance television drama series which stars Hideaki Takizawa and Kyoko Fukada and aired on TBS in 2001. It was written by Shinji Nojima, and directed by Nobuhiro Doi and Hiroshi Matsubara.- Plot :...	Yui Misawa
2001	Fighting Girl Fighting Girl The Fighting Girl is a Japanese television drama starring Kyoko Fukada. Fukada plays Sayoko, a tough, 19-year-old with ambition, energy and nowhere to direct it. Her father clearly favors her blind 16-year-old sister. Junior college is unstimulating...	Sayoko Yoshida	Lead role
2002	Friends	Tomoko Asai	Lead role, two-part television special
2002	First Love	Kasumi Ezawa
2002	Remote Remote (manga) is a manga series written by Tadashi Agi and illustrated by Tetsuya Koshiba, and published in Kodansha's Young Magazine from 2002 to 2004. The manga follows Kurumi Ayaki, the newest member of the Unsolved Crimes Division, Special Unit B....	Kurumi Ayaki	Lead role
2002	Otōsan	Kei Shindo
2003	Hakoiri Musume!	Akari Komori	Lead role
2004	Futari	Mutsumi Kamagata	Television special
2004	Kanojo ga Shinjatta	Reiko Ishii
2004	Nōka no Yome ni Naritai	Wako Yoshikawa	Lead role
2004	Minami-kun no Koibito	Chiyomi	Lead role with Kazunari Ninomiya Kazunari Ninomiya , often called , is a Japanese idol, singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi and is best known to movie audiences for his portrayal as Private Saigo in the 2006 Clint Eastwood war film Letters from Iwo Jima.Ninomiya began his career in the...
2004	Xmas Nante Daikirai	Fuyumi Kurihara	Lead role
2004	Tokugawa Tsunayoshi: Inu to Yobareta Otoko	Matsuko	Jidaigeki Jidaigeki is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular...  television special
2005	Fugo Keiji Fugo Keiji -Synopsis:Kanbe Miwako, the granddaughter of a millionaire, becomes a detective and starts working at a police station where there are few women. Her style, elegant manners, and upper-class attitudes constantly get on the nerves of her old-fashioned co-workers...	Miwako Kanbe	Lead role
2005	Shiawase ni Naritai!	Hikari Asada	Lead role with Yuki Matsushita
2005	Umeko	Miyo Ota	Lead role
2006	Akai Kiseki	Rinko Sekiguchi	Lead role
2006	Fugō Keiji 2	Miwako Kanbe	Lead role
2007	Watashi no Atama no Naka no Keshigomu	Kana Kono	Lead role
2007	Yama Onna Kabe Onna Yama Onna Kabe Onna is a Japanese manga by Atsuko Takakura serialized in the seinen manga magazine Evening, published by Kodansha. A Japanese television drama adaptation aired on Fuji Television channels. The manga did not sell well until the television series began....	Marie Mariya	Lead role with Misaki Ito Misaki Ito is a Japanese actress and model. Her real name is .-Career:In 1999, Ito became the Asahi Beer "image girl" and a model under an exclusive contract to CanCam magazine...
2007	Kimi ga Kureta Natsu	Tokiko Kizaki	Television special
2007	Ikiru	Sachi Odagiri
2007	Galileo	Shizuko	Episode 7 guest appearance
2007	Aoi Hitomi to Nuage	Erika Ichinose	Lead role
2008	Mirai Koshi Meguru	Meguru Yoshida	Lead role
2008	Gakkō ja Oshierarenai! Gakko ja Oshierarenai! is a Japanese television drama series concerning the life of ten high school students. It stars Kyoko Fukada as their teacher. It started to air on July 15, 2008.-Plot:...	Mai Aida	Lead role
2009	Tenchijin	Yodo-dono
2009	Kurobe no Taiyō	Ayako Kawaguchi
2009	Karei naru Spy	Dorothy
2010	Massugu na Otoko	Narumi Kurita
2010	Second Virgin
2010	Genya	Mifuyu Shinkai	Lead role
2010	Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku		Episode 10 guest appearance
2011	Sengyou Shufu Tantei ~Watashi wa Shadow Watashi wa Shadow is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Noriko Kasuya. It was adapted into a Japanese television drama series that premiered on TBS on 21 October 2011.-Cast:* Kyoko Fukada as Sena Asagi* Naohito Fujiki* Kenta Kiritani* Arata Furuta...	Serina Asagi	Lead Role

Albums

• Dear… (1999)
• Moon (2000)
• Universe (2001)
• Flow: Kyoko Fukada Remixes (2002)

Singles

• 1999.05.19 "Saigo no Kajitsu"
• 1999.09.01 "Easy Rider"
• 2000.02.02 "Kirameki no Shunkan"
• 2000.07.19 "How?"
• 2001.06.06 "Swimming"
• 2001.10.03 "Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteru"
• 2002.05.22 "Route 246"

External links

• Kyoko Fukada's official site at Horipro, Inc.
• Kyoko Fukada's Profile - www.spcnet.tv