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Yu Aoi
Born: 17th Aug 1985 Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan
Dept: Acting
Yu Aoi (蒼井優) is a Japanese actress and model born on August 17, 1985. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Arisugawa in Hana and Alice (2004), also directed by Iwai, Kimiko Tanigawa in the hula dancing film Hula Girls and Hagumi Hanamoto in the 2006 live-action adaptation of the popular Honey and Clover manga series.
She has won numerous awards for her performances on screen, including the prestigious Japan Academy Prize and Kinema Junpo Awards for best supporting actress in 2007 for Hula Girls and Rookie of the Year for continued performances in the field of Films in Media and Fine Arts by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2009.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 111
Film: 83 (75%)
Television: 28 (25%)
Remaining genres not in graph: History, Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, War, Music, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Reality, Talk, Kids
Filmography
(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
When a guest commentator swells and explodes on live TV in an unprecedented and unimaginable crime, the whole world is thrown into shock. Behind this ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: TOKYOタクシー
2025
One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tokyo to a senior care facility in Hayama, Kanagawa. ... view
Character:
Original title: ミーツ・ザ・ワールド
2025
Yukari, a 27-year old fujoshi fangirl who loves the popular yakiniku-themed pretty boy anime "Meat is Mine", ends up meeting Rai, a pretty but enigmat ... view
Character:
Yuki
Original title: ふつうの子ども
2025
Yuji Ueda, an ordinary fourth grader, is attracted to his classmate Kokoa Miyake. She is attracted to Hashimoto Haruto, a problem child. The three of ... view
Character:
Keiko Ueda
Original title: それいけ！アンパンマン チャポンのヒーロー！
2025
Centers on Chapon, a mysterious boy who falls from the sky without any knowledge of where he came from. Staying with Anpanman, he one day helps someon ... view
Character:
Chapon (voice)
Jan 2025 (first aired)
In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel. ... view
Character:
Takiko (7 ep.)
Dec 2023 (first aired)
The documentary series features pioneers who are opening up frontiers in various fields such as science, space, culture, history, art, fashion, and mo ... view
Character:
Narrator (2 ep.)
Original title: 劇場版 シルバニアファミリー フレアからのおくりもの
2023
In the enchanting village of Sylvania, Freya, a sweet Chocolate Rabbit girl, tackles two fun tasks for the Star Festival: picking the "Tree of the Yea ... view
Character:
Teri Chocolate (voice)
Oct 2023 (first aired)
Sets in the 1910s, this is the story of Hanada Suzuko, a young girl who grew up in a family that owned a bathhouse in downtown Osaka. From a young age ... view
Character:
Reiko Yamato (127 ep.)
Original title: Dr.コトー診療所
2022
In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the yo ... view
Character:
Mina Nakai
Original title: しかたなかったと言うてはいかんのです
2021
An medical student unwillingly assists in human experiments on American POWs during WWII and gets sentenced to death in the Yokohama War Trials. His w ... view
Character:
Fusako Torii
Original title: おらおらでひとりいぐも
2021
In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly p ... view
Character:
Momoko
Original title: るろうに剣心 最終章 The Final
2021
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge ... view
Character:
Megumi Takani
Original title: スパイの妻
2020
It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband ... view
Character:
Satoko Fukuhara
Original title: ロマンスドール
2020
It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. We ... view
Character:
Sonoko Kitamura
Original title: 宮本から君へ
2019
Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced ma ... view
Character:
Yasuko Nakano
Original title: ある船頭の話
2019
Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barel ... view
Character:
Geisha
Original title: 海獣の子供
2019
Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dug ... view
Character:
Kanako Azumi (voice)
Original title: 長いお別れ
2019
Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their mother for his farewell and prepare ... view
Character:
Fumi Higashi
Original title: 斬、
2018
In mid-19th century Edo period, a masterless rōnin named Ikematsu Sosuke resides in a peaceful village among those he helps. However, as the prevalen ... view
Character:
Yu
Original title: ペンギン・ハイウェイ
2018
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a ... view
Character:
Onē-san (voice)
Original title: 妻よ薔薇のように 家族はつらいよIII
2018
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to ... view
Character:
Noriko Mamiya
Apr 2018 (first aired)
The story follows an amateur salaryman named Hiroshi Miyamoto, who works at a stationary company and pushes forward despite his frustration with his o ... view
Character:
中野靖子 (12 ep.)
Original title: 彼女がその名を知らない鳥たち
2017
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared. ... view
Character:
Towako Kitahara
Original title: ミックス。
2017
To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed doub ... view
Character:
Yo
Oct 2017 (first aired)
Rosuke Narumi works at a trading company and he is pretty good at his job. He dates Satoko Matsubara. The trading company has a business relationship ... view
Character:
Chihiro Mashiba (10 ep.)
Original title: 東京喰種 トーキョーグール
2017
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a f ... view
Character:
Rize Kamishiro
Jul 2017 (first aired)
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a str ... view
Character:
Setsuko Kawai (10 ep.)
Original title: 家族はつらいよ2
2017
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problem ... view
Character:
Noriko Mamiya
Original title: アズミ・ハルコは行方不明
2016
While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a templ ... view
Character:
Haruko Azumi
Original title: オーバー・フェンス
2016
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other stude ... view
Character:
Satoshi Tamura
Original title: 家族はつらいよ
2016
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies th ... view
Character:
Noriko Mamiya
Original title: 岸辺の旅
2015
Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip ... view
Character:
Tomoko
Apr 2015 (first aired)
A psychiatrist, Rintaro Hino, listens closely to the aching hearts of people, relieving them of their pain. His practice is growing but despite his ac ... view
Character:
梦乃 (10 ep.)
Original title: 花とアリス殺人事件
2015
After transferring to Ishinomori Middle School, Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa overhears her classmates discussing a strange rumor. The previous occupant o ... view
Character:
Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa (voice)
Original title: るろうに剣心 伝説の最期編
2014
Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final techn ... view
Character:
Megumi Takani
Original title: るろうに剣心 京都大火編
2014
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, ... view
Character:
Megumi Takani
Jul 2014 (first aired)
Five siblings struggle to live together after their parents have passed away. Arguments are a norm, and each have their own problems with studying, fi ... view
Character:
Azusa Sawabe (11 ep.)
Original title: 春を背負って
2014
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountai ... view
Character:
Ai Takazawa
Apr 2014 (first aired)
An explosion take place in a street of Tokyo. Many people were killed or seriously injured. One casualty is Chihiro, the wife of Public Security chief ... view
Character:
Shiori Nanami (5 ep.)
Original title: 劇団☆新感線 「ZIPANG PUNK〜五右衛門ロック III」
2014
Goemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but Private Detective Shinkuro Akechi chases after Goemon ... view
Character:
Neko no me o gin
Original title: キャプテンハーロック
2013
Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth. ... view
Character:
Miime (voice)
Original title: 贖罪
2013
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she wa ... view
Character:
Sae Kikuchi
Feb 2013 (first aired)
Detective Seiichiro Watari is nearing retirement, but is still bothered by an unsolved case from seven years ago when the decomposed corpse of a femal ... view
Character:
Misato Ebata / Akane Seike (2 ep.)
Original title: 東京家族
2013
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved. ... view
Character:
Noriko Mamiya
Original title: ダブルフェイス 偽装警察編
2012
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This sp ... view
Character:
Original title: るろうに剣心
2012
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing. ... view
Character:
Megumi Takani
Jan 2012 (first aired)
The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with al ... view
Character:
Sae Kikuchi (5 ep.)
Original title: がんばっぺ フラガール！ ～フクシマに生きる。彼女たちのいま～
2011
The Hawaiian Spa Resort in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. This documentary accompanies their famous H ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: たまたま
2011
A young woman travels to Ireland. She comes across unexpected meetings, inspiration and even miracles. ... view
Character:
2011
An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood. ... view
Character:
Mina
Original title: 洋菓子店コアンドル
2011
A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is det ... view
Character:
Natsume Usuba
2010
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning a ... view
Character:
Rai / Yu
Jul 2010 (first aired)
He was the pride of his police department as the number one armed robbery buster... until he had his heart broken by the sudden flight of a fiancee fr ... view
Character:
Setsuko Konuma (1 ep.)
Original title: FLOWERS フラワーズ
2010
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day. ... view
Character:
Rin
Original title: のだめカンタービレ 最終楽章 後編
2010
Nodame and Chiaki mutually decide that it would be for the best if they parted ways for a while so Nodame can practice for an upcoming competition. Ho ... view
Character:
Jadwiga (voice)
Original title: おとうと
2010
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to ... view
Character:
Koharu Takano
Original title: ミヨリの森
2009
After being deserted by her parents, 11-year old Miyori shuts her heart from the rest of the world and denies any form of human relationships. She was ... view
Character:
Miyori (voice)
Original title: レッドライン
2009
A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to pa ... view
Character:
Sonoshee McLaren (voice)
Original title: いけちゃんとぼく
2009
Based on Saibara Rieko's manga, Ike-chan to Boku (a.k.a. Good Bye My Secret Friend) tells the heartfelt story of a young boy named Toshio and his imag ... view
Character:
Narrator
Original title: ホノカアボーイ
2009
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman. ... view
Character:
Kaoru
Original title: TOKYO!
2008
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. ... view
Character:
Pizza-Delivery Girl (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Original title: 百万円と苦虫女
2008
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million ... view
Character:
Suzuko Sato
Apr 2008 (first aired)
Handa Sen is the "okami" (proprietress) of a long-standing restaurant in one of Tokyo's lower districts. Though she is normally airheaded and loves to ... view
Character:
Sen Handa (10 ep.)
Jan 2008 (first aired)
The series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The directors were given freedom in their stories, but they all ... view
Character:
Chika/Makoto/Umeko/Suzuko (12 ep.)
Original title: 人のセックスを笑うな
2008
Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical coll ... view
Character:
En
Original title: 明日への遺言
2007
A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen. ... view
Character:
Kazuko Moribe
Original title: クワイエットルームにようこそ
2007
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatr ... view
Character:
Miki
Oct 2007 (first aired)
Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair ... view
Character:
Kanbara Atsuko (1 ep.)
Original title: 蟲師
2007
Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi a ... view
Character:
Tanyu
Original title: 虹の女神 Rainbow Song
2006
Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollectio ... view
Character:
Kana Sato
Original title: 鉄コン筋クリート
2006
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the to ... view
Character:
Shiro (voice)
Original title: シュガー＆スパイス ～風味絶佳～
2006
Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy and introspective, Shiro unde ... view
Character:
Girl on the Bus
Original title: フラガール
2006
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction. ... view
Character:
Kimiko Tanikawa
Original title: ハチミツとクローバー
2006
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare ... view
Character:
Hagu
Original title: 男たちの大和／YAMATO
2005
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of ... view
Character:
Taeko
Original title: 変身
2005
Henshin tells the story of Junichi, a young boy who is forced to go through a life-saving brain transplantation. By his side, his girlfriend Kei is wa ... view
Character:
Kei Hamura
Original title: 星になった少年 Shining Boy ＆ Little Randy
2005
Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in Thailand ... view
Character:
Emi Murakami
Original title: 亀は意外と速く泳ぐ
2005
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. ... view
Character:
Kujaku Ogitani
Original title: ニライカナイからの手紙
2005
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuk ... view
Character:
Fuki Asato
Apr 2005 (first aired)
A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic "rakugo" performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the Harajuku backstreet ... view
Character:
Risa (11 ep.)
Character:
Mami Tachibana
2005
A horror suspense film to be released in February 2005, in which Reiko SUHO plays a college student who is drawn into a bizarre world. A dead woman is ... view
Character:
2005
Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit Kat ... view
Character:
Original title: タイガー&ドラゴン スペシャル
2005
The prequel to the TV series "Tiger and Dragon" broadcast as a two-hour special before the series. ... view
Character:
Risa
Original title: 海猫/Umineko / Sea Cat
2004
The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a hospita ... view
Character:
Miya Noda
Original title: 七子と七生 ～姉と弟になれる日～
2004
Nanako is an ordinary high school girl who lives with her mother, who is a taxi driver. One day, suddenly she has a younger brother - Nanao, the son o ... view
Character:
Nanako
2004
***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo Anata ni" (we bring you misfortune) promoting a new ... view
Character:
Original title: 花とアリス
2004
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious. ... view
Character:
Tetsuko Arisugawa (Alice)
Original title: Kako Kara No Nikki
2004
A writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written by a teenage girl (Yû Aoi) who is fatally ill. Living ... view
Character:
2004
Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao must succeed to save his ... view
Character:
Haruka Kuramochi
2003
A former idol becomes a teacher at the high school she graduated from, but her new career is threatened by an expose book her ex-manager is planning t ... view
Character:
Rika Hashiba
Original title: 偶然にも最悪な少年
2003
Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts around and meanders through life until a death remin ... view
Character:
Harada's Girlfriend
Jul 2003 (first aired)
Dr. Goto Kensuke transfers to a remote island clinic after an incident at his Tokyo hospital. His first task: winning over the wary locals. ... view
Character:
仲依ミナ (11 ep.)
Mar 2003 (first aired)
Web/video series by Shunji Iwai. Commissioned by Nestle for breaktown.com. Later adapted into feature film. ... view
Character:
Alice (3 ep.)
Jan 2003 (first aired)
Hina, a student at Nikko High School, goes out one evening with her classmate Beniko. They get split up and Hina ends up in a strange meeting with a m ... view
Character:
Ezawa Mami (11 ep.)
Aug 2002 (first aired)
Yoko is aiming to become an actress in the city far away from her home. I lost my husband in an accident during autumn salmon fishing and tried to esc ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 呼吸 「リリイ・シュシュのすべて」のすべて
2002
The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS ... view
Character:
Original title: 害虫
2002
13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suic ... view
Character:
Natsuko Yamaoka
Original title: オルファクトグラム
2002
Amateur band guitarist Minoru Katagiri becomes unconscious when someone hits his head at her sister's house. When he regains consciousness a month lat ... view
Character:
Original title: 青と白で水色
2001
Uchiyama Kaede and Shiina Kasumi used to be best friends. Now in high school, Kasumi grew more popular than Kaede, which has led her to continually bu ... view
Character:
Shiina Kasumi
Original title: リリイ・シュシュのすべて
2001
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relation ... view
Character:
Shiori Tsuda
