Yu Aoi
Birthday: 1985-08-17
Place of Birth: Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan
Biography: 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.
Movies
Mushi-Shi: The Movie
Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living thing...
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Miyori's Forest
After being deserted by her parents, 11-year old Miyori shuts her heart from the rest of the world a...
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Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...
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Hana & Alice
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a doo...
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Tekkonkinkreet
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. Wh...
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pe...
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Flowers
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way t...
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Hula Girls
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Ha...
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Rainbow Song
Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his c...
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Worst by Chance
Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts ar...
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
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Welcome to the Quiet Room
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protect...
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Patisserie Coin De Rue
A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aimin...
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About Her Brother
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud...
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Yamato
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the pre...
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One Million Yen Girl
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and ...
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Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
Nodame and Chiaki mutually decide that it would be for the best if they parted ways for a while so N...
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Fukushima Hula Girls
The Hawaiian Spa Resort in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earth...
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Redline
A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The rac...
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Sex Is No Laughing Matter
Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teach...
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Honey and Clover
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama foll...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo An...
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Harmful Insect
13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father a...
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an invert...
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Vampire
An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human...
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Mask de 41
Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wr...
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Penance
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of ...
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The Diary from the Past
A writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written by a ...
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The Lightning Tree
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree ...
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to c...
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a ...
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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin t...
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Sylvanian Families: The Movie
In the enchanting village of Sylvania, Freya, a sweet Chocolate Rabbit girl, tackles two fun tasks f...
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呪戒-JUKAI-
A horror suspense film to be released in February 2005, in which Reiko SUHO plays a college student ...
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Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro
Uchiyama Kaede and Shiina Kasumi used to be best friends. Now in high school, Kasumi grew more popul...
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Climbing to Spring
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the...
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Dr. Coto's Clinic
In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more tha...
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Journey to the Shore
Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and...
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Letters from Kanai Nirai
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photogra...
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The Case of Hana & Alice
A Japanese girl struggling to fit in at her new school teams up with a reclusive neighbor to find ou...
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1980
A former idol becomes a teacher at the high school she graduated from, but her new career is threate...
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Tokyo Family
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and ...
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What a Wonderful Family!
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what ...
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Japanese Girls Never Die
While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who h...
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Sugar & Spice
Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro decides to put off college and work at a gas ...
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Over the Fence
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college...
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Shining Boy and Little Randy
Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. Th...
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Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III
Goemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but Priv...
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Tokyo Ghoul
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He s...
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Honokaa Boy
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an...
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What a Wonderful Family! 2
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Fa...
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Birds Without Names
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has myster...
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Mixed Doubles
To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table t...
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By Chance
A young woman travels to Ireland. She comes across unexpected meetings, inspiration and even miracle...
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What a Wonderful Family! 3
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one aftern...
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Penguin Highway
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his v...
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Killing
In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin lives in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. One da...
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A Long Goodbye
Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help...
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Children of the Sea
Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boy...
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From Miyamoto to You
Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the ...
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Romance Doll
It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband...
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yuk...
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Wife of a Spy
It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife...
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Best Wishes for Tomorrow
A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American A...
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Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They rais...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowi...
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Nanako and Nanao: the Day They Became Sister and Brother
Nanako is an ordinary high school girl who lives with her mother, who is a taxi driver. One day, sud...
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Umineko - Inseparable
The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, ...
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Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly success...
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Good Bye, My Secret Friend
Based on Saibara Rieko's manga, Ike-chan to Boku (a.k.a. Good Bye My Secret Friend) tells the heartf...
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Filming H&A
Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts...
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All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"
The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that p...
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Shikatanakatta to Yuute wa Ikan Nodesu
An medical student unwillingly assists in human experiments on American POWs during WWII and gets se...
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How Dare You?
Grade schooler Yuishi falls for his classmate Kokoa after she passionately channels Greta Thunberg i...
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Meets the World
Yukari, a 27-year old fujoshi fangirl who loves the popular yakiniku-themed pretty boy anime "Meat i...
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Tokyo Taxi
One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tok...
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Olfactogram
Amateur band guitarist Minoru Katagiri (Mizuho Takasugi) becomes unconscious when someone hits his h...
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Sore Ike! Anpanman: Chapon no Hero!
Centers on Chapon, a mysterious boy who falls from the sky without any knowledge of where he came fr...
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