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 tigress in the japanese dub of "kung fu panda" and "kung fu panda 2". she also appears in "blindness" as the first blind man's wife. on 24 october 2010 she married noriyuki higashiyama.