Shibasaki Kou

• Profession: Actress and Singer
• Height: 160cm
• Star sign: Leo
• Blood type: B

• Discovered at the age 14 by talent scouts

Shibasaki Kou (Real name is Yamamura Yukie (山村幸恵)) is a Japanese actress and singer. She started her career at fourteen by a star agent and worked in many TV shows and commercials. Her stage name is taken from the main character of Junko Kawakami's manga Golden Delicious Apple Sherbet.

She became famous outside Japan for her role in Battle Royale (2000), where she performed the cold-hearted Mitsuko Souma; her acting career took off with this movie, and now she is well known in East Asia.

Her performance in the movie Go earned her several awards, among which the Best Supporting Actress Award of Japanese Academy, the Hōchi Movie Award, the Kinema Junpō Award.

Kou Shibasaki Official Site

Blood type is B.Branded as the glamorous queen of Japanese TV dramas.Quentin Tarantino wanted Chiaki Kuriyama and Kou Shibasaki to be Go Go and Yuki Yubari in Kill Bill: Vol 1. But because of Kou's packed schedule she couldn't appear in the film.

As an actress:

• 2010 Ôoku as Yoshimune
  
• 2010 Shokudo katasumuri
• 2010 "Wagaya no rekishi"
• 2008 Yôgisha X no kenshin as Kaoru Utsumi
• 2008 Shôrin shôjo as Rin Sakurazawa
• "Garireo" as Kaoru Utsumi (1 episode, 2007)
• 2007 Strange Genius Scientist as Kaoru Utsumi
• 2007 Maiko haaaan!!! as Fujiko Osawa
• 2007 Shin kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raô den - Gekitô no shô as Reina
• 2007 Dororo as Dororo
• 2006 Kiraware Matsuko no isshô as Asuka
• 2006 Nihon chinbotsu as Reiko Abe
• 2006 Shin kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raô den - Jun'ai no shô as Reina
• 2006 Kenchô no hoshi as Aki Ninomiya
• 2005 Mezon do Himiko as Saori Yoshida
• "Orenji deizu" as Hagio Sae (11 episodes, 2004)
• 2004 Your Voice as Hagio Sae
• 2004 Her Love as Hagio Sae
• 2004 You Are Not Here as Hagio Sae
• 2004 A Sad Fate as Hagio Sae
• 2004 The Couple That Is Bound Together as Hagio Sae
• 2004 Sekai no chûshin de, ai o sakebu as Ritsuko Fujimura
• 2004 Densetsu no wani Jeiku
• 2003 Chakushin ari as Yumi Nakamura
• 2003 "Good Luck!!" as Ayumi Ogawa (unknown episodes)
• 2003 "Dr. Kotô Shinryôjo" as Ayaka Hoshino (unknown episodes)
• 2002 Yomigaeri as Rui
• 2002 Drive as Sakai Sumire
• 2002 "Sora kara furu ichioku no hoshi" as Miyashita Yuki (unknown episodes)
• 2002 Soundtrack as Misa
• 2001 Kewaishi as Sayo Nakatsu
• 2001 Go as Sakurai Tsubaki
• 2001 Kakashi as Izumi Miyamori
• 2001 Hashire! Ichiro
• 2000 Batoru rowaiaru as Mitsuko Sôma - onna 11-ban
• 2000 Tokyo gomi onna as Kyoko
• 2000 Dong jing gong lüe as Yumi
• 1999 "Kowai dôwa"

Self:

• 2007 Waratte iitomo!: 2007 aki no saiten supesharu
• "Smap×Smap"
• 2006 Episode dated 17 July 2006