Kimura won the "Rookie of the Year" prize at the 21st Japan Academy Awards for her appearance in Shitsurakuen.

[3] Kimura appeared as Shizuka in the recent spaghetti-western Sukiyaki Western Django.

As of 25 June 2007 she was slated to star in a new Japanese soap opera to be set in Australia.

[5] In 2007, Kimura took the title role in a TV Asahi tanpatsu (単発, TV movie), entitled Teresa Teng Monogatari (テレサ・テン物語), portraying the late Taiwanese superstar, who was (and continues to be) popular throughout Asia.

[6] She also did the voice of Claire Folley in the game Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.