Yu Aoi
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.038 |
| Birthday | 1985-08-17 |
| Place of Birth | Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Also Known As | Yû Aoi, Yū Aoi, 夏井 優, Yū Natsui, 蒼井 優, 나츠이 유우, Yuu Aoi, یو آویی, |
2007
Mushi-Shi: The Movie
6/40
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Mushi-Shi: The Movie
2009
Miyori's Forest
7.1/26
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...
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Miyori's Forest
2008
Tokyo!
6.9/232
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....
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Tokyo!
2004
Hana & Alice
7/112
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
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Hana & Alice
2006
Tekkonkinkreet
7.4/369
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...
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Tekkonkinkreet
2005
Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
6.3/30
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....
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
2010
Flowers
7/11
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
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Flowers
2006
Hula Girls
6.8/52
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
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Hula Girls
2006
Rainbow Song
7.5/24
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...
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Rainbow Song
2003
Worst by Chance
0/0
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...
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Worst by Chance
2001
All About Lily Chou-Chou
7.4/239
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationsh...
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
2007
Welcome to the Quiet Room
6.7/24
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...
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Welcome to the Quiet Room
2011
Patisserie Coin De Rue
6.8/9
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...
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Patisserie Coin De Rue
2010
About Her Brother
6.3/16
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...
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About Her Brother
2005
Yamato
5.4/37
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...
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Yamato
2008
One Million Yen Girl
7.1/48
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...
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One Million Yen Girl
2005
Henshin
6/1
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Henshin
2010
Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
7.3/24
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...
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Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
2011
Fukushima Hula Girls
0/0
The Hawaiian Spa Resort in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. This documentary accompanies their famous H...
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Fukushima Hula Girls
2009
Redline
7.5/477
The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the s...
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Redline
2008
Sex Is No Laughing Matter
6.2/28
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...
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Sex Is No Laughing Matter
2006
Honey and Clover
6.4/29
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...
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Honey and Clover
2004
Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
0/0
***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...
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2001
Harmful Insect
6.8/26
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...
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Harmful Insect
2012
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
7.525/829
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
2011
Vampire
6.1/49
An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.
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Vampire
2004
Mask de 41
0/0
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...
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Mask de 41
2013
Penance
7.3/39
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...
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Penance
2004
The Diary from the Past
0/0
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 i...
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The Diary from the Past
2010
The Lightning Tree
6.4/5
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...
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The Lightning Tree
2013
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
6.62/1039
Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock
2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
7.6/591
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,...
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
7.7/511
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...
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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
2023
Sylvanian Families: The Movie
6/5
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...
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Sylvanian Families: The Movie
2005
呪戒-JUKAI-
0/0
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...
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呪戒-JUKAI-
2001
Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro
6/1
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...
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2014
Climbing to Spring
7.2/5
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...
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Climbing to Spring
2022
Dr. Coto's Clinic
7.3/3
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...
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Dr. Coto's Clinic
2015
Journey to the Shore
6.5/65
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...
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Journey to the Shore
2005
Letters from Kanai Nirai
6.7/3
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuk...
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2015
The Case of Hana & Alice
7.306/152
A Japanese girl struggling to fit in at her new school teams up with a reclusive neighbor to find out what happened to an upperclassman who disappeare...
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2014
四代目市川猿之助 斬新という宿命
0/0
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2003
1980
0/0
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...
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2013
Tokyo Family
7.3/68
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
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Tokyo Family
2016
What a Wonderful Family!
7.2/34
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...
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What a Wonderful Family!
2016
Japanese Girls Never Die
6.3/17
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...
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Japanese Girls Never Die
2006
Sugar & Spice
5.6/8
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...
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Sugar & Spice
2016
Over the Fence
6.7/19
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other stude...
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Over the Fence
2005
Shining Boy and Little Randy
4.8/4
Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in Thailand...
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Shining Boy and Little Randy
2014
Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III
5/1
Goemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but Private Detective Shinkuro Akechi chases after Goemon...
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Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III
2017
Tokyo Ghoul
7.1/356
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...
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Tokyo Ghoul
2009
Honokaa Boy
5.7/7
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.
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Honokaa Boy
2017
What a Wonderful Family! 2
6.9/28
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems....
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What a Wonderful Family! 2
2017
Birds Without Names
6.2/24
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.
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Birds Without Names
2017
Mixed Doubles
6.558/43
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...
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Mixed Doubles
2011
By Chance
0/0
A young woman travels to Ireland. She comes across unexpected meetings, inspiration and even miracles.
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By Chance
2018
What a Wonderful Family! 3
7.6/13
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...
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What a Wonderful Family! 3
2018
Penguin Highway
7.2/235
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...
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Penguin Highway
2018
Killing
7.3/59
In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin lives in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. One day, a group of outlaw swordsmen enter the village.
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Killing
2019
A Long Goodbye
6.9/10
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...
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A Long Goodbye
2019
Children of the Sea
7.1/307
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...
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Children of the Sea
2019
From Miyamoto to You
6.1/12
Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced ma...
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From Miyamoto to You
2020
Romance Doll
5.6/29
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...
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Romance Doll
2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
7.7/493
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...
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
2020
Wife of a Spy
6.7/90
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 b...
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2007
Best Wishes for Tomorrow
0/0
A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.
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Best Wishes for Tomorrow
2021
Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
7/3
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 passe...
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Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
2019
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
6.8/6
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...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2004
Nanako and Nanao: the Day They Became Sister and Brother
0/0
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...
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2005
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
6/4
One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.
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2004
Umineko - Inseparable
1/1
The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a hospita...
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Umineko - Inseparable
2012
Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
7/1
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...
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2009
Good Bye, My Secret Friend
0/0
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...
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2005
Filming H&A
0/0
Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit Kat
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2002
All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"
6.3/3
The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS
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All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"
2021
Shikatanakatta to Yuute wa Ikan Nodesu
0/0
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...
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