Yu Aoi profile
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Yu Aoi

17th August 1985 Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan 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.

83 Movies 29 TV Shows 1 In Production 113 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Redline poster
Redline 14th August 2009 as Sonoshee McLaren (voice)
Tokyo! poster
Tokyo! 16th August 2008 as Pizza-Delivery Girl (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Yamato poster
Yamato 17th December 2005 as Taeko
Henshin poster
Henshin 19th November 2005 as Kei Hamura
1980 poster
1980 6th December 2003 as Rika Hashiba
Asura poster
Asura 9th January 2025 as Takiko
MOZU poster
MOZU 10th April 2014 as Shiori Nanami
Penance poster
Penance 8th January 2012 as Sae Kikuchi
Osen poster
Osen 22nd April 2008 as Sen Handa
Galileo poster
Galileo 15th October 2007 as Kanbara Atsuko
Human Vapor poster Coming soon
Human Vapor 2nd July 2026