Ayumi Ito
Birthday: 1980-04-14
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Born in Tokyo, Ayumi Ito has always had a love for movies and art. She made her big-screen debut in Nobuhiko Obayashi's The Water Travelers: Samurai Kids. Her distinctive style led to her critically acclaimed performance in Swallowtail Butterfly, directed by the renowned Director Shunji Iwai. At 16-years-old, Ayumi was awarded both the Best New Actress Award as well as the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 20th Annual Japanese Academy Awards. Ayumi's career has blossomed into starring roles in several successful films and television shows. She trained in LA and New York and has worked globally with world-renown Chinese director and artist Zhuangzhuang Tian, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), among other great filmmakers. Ayumi's performance in the the Fuji TV drama Belle de Jour was so strong that she reprised the role when it became a feature film and box-office hit, earning over 2.3 billion JPY. She is also the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Off-screen, Ayumi is a talented vocalist and recording artist. Her passion for art continues to thrive and she brings characters to life in her performances.
Movies
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of pr...
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Swallowtail Butterfly
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan....
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Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 7
A collection of psychic images received by general posts. Fear multiplies! Earth-bound spirits, veng...
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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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Noise
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing popul...
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Final Fantasy VII: Last Order
After the destruction of Nibelheim at the hands of Sephiroth, Zack and Cloud are on the run from Shi...
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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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Clay Fear
Pottery factory owner Ming Fu (Ng Kai Wah) is haunted by visions of the blazing death of his busine...
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The Blue Bird
Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, a...
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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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Immersion
Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting be...
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Owl
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to ...
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Dr. Akagi
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war...
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Gantz: Perfect Answer
Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tire...
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Bandage
Set in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high school, A...
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Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
It's been four years since Meteor fell on Midgar. Denzel meets Reeve at an outskirts coffee shop abo...
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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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Vanished
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make ...
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A Story of Yonosuke
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yono...
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A Day on the Planet
Masamichi is about to take up postgraduate study. He invites six student friends round for a farewel...
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Sunday's Dream
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same compa...
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Farewell, Kuro
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high s...
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Check It Out, Yo!
Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local O...
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Hold Up Down
A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind th...
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Curtain Call
Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result o...
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Be Sure to Share
Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must co...
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Into the Faraway Sky
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this...
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Solanin
Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Mei...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover a...
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River of First Love
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded...
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The Go Master
The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a...
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Judge!
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arr...
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After the Flowers
Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sp...
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra...
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Flower of Shanidar
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flow...
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Crickets
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a p...
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Tokyo Rhapsody
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku"...
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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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Penance
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of ...
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Gantz
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a myster...
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Amateur Singing Contest
Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur s...
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Soup
Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his rel...
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Sekigahara
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...
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Hirugao
Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorc...
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Chief — Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu
ogane Takichi, the CEO of a construction company, is shot dead in the street in Nishi Shinjuku in To...
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Last Quarter
Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have ...
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With All Our Might
Tamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo (Haz...
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Samurai Kids
A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai...
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The Room
Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for ...
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Sada
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and...
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Labyrinth of Cinema
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time ...
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Cheer Boys!!
Haruki Bando decides to quit his family's sport of judo after a shoulder injury and start a new proj...
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Dance! Dance! Dance!
The movie is set in Japan and tells the story of Furu, a young aspiring musician, who is dreaming of...
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People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
Since the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but everyth...
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Story Game
Who can tell the scariest story? Three friends try to out wit each other on a camping trip in Hawaii...
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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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White Flowers and Fruits
Set in an all-girls Christian boarding school, Anna always feels like an outsider due to her ability...
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