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 Jap...
Known For
Complete Filmography

TOKYO Taxi
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. ...

Meets the World
2025
as Yuki
Based on the novel by Hitomi Kanehara.

How Dare You?
2025
Grade schooler Yuishi falls for his classmate Kokoa after she passionately channels Greta Thunberg in a speech about environmental activism. Teaming u...

Sylvanian Families: The Movie
2023
as Teri Chocolate (voice)
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...

Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022
as Mina Nakai
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...

Shikatanakatta to Yuute wa Ikan Nodesu
2021
as Fusako Torii
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...

Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
2021
as Momoko
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...

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
2021
as Megumi Takani
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...

Wife of a Spy
2020
as Satoko Fukuhara
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...

Romance Doll
2020
as Sonoko Kitamura
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...

From Miyamoto to You
2019
as Yasuko Nakano
Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced ma...

They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
as Geisha
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...

Children of the Sea
2019
as Kanako Azumi (voice)
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...

A Long Goodbye
2019
as Fumi Higashi
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...

Killing
2018
as Yu
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.

Penguin Highway
2018
as Onē-san (voice)
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...

What a Wonderful Family! 3
2018
as Noriko Mamiya
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 ...

Birds Without Names
2017
as Towako Kitahara
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.

Mixed Doubles
2017
as Yo
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...

Tokyo Ghoul
2017
as Rize Kamishiro
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...

What a Wonderful Family! 2
2017
as Noriko Mamiya
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems....

Japanese Girls Never Die
2016
as Haruko Azumi
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...

Over the Fence
2016
as Satoshi Tamura
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other stude...

What a Wonderful Family!
2016
as Noriko Mamiya
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...

Journey to the Shore
2015
as Tomoko
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 ...

The Case of Hana & Alice
2015
as Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa (voice)
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...

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
2014
as Megumi Takani
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...

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
2014
as Megumi Takani
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,...

Climbing to Spring
2014
as Ai Takazawa
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...

Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III
2014
as Neko no me o gin
Goemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but Private Detective Shinkuro Akechi chases after Goemon ...
四代目市川猿之助 斬新という宿命
2014

Space Pirate Captain Harlock
2013
as Miime (voice)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.

Penance
2013
as Sae Kikuchi
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...

Tokyo Family
2013
as Noriko Mamiya
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
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...

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
2012
as Megumi Takani
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

Fukushima Hula Girls
2011
as Narrator (voice)
The Hawaiian Spa Resort in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. This documentary accompanies their famous H...

By Chance
2011
A young woman travels to Ireland. She comes across unexpected meetings, inspiration and even miracles.

Vampire
2011
as Mina
An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

Patisserie Coin De Rue
2011
as Natsume Usuba
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...

The Lightning Tree
2010
as Rai / Yu
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...

Flowers
2010
as Rin
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
2010
as Jadwiga (voice)
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...

About Her Brother
2010
as Koharu Takano
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to ...

Miyori's Forest
2009
as Miyori (voice)
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...

Redline
2009
as Sonoshee McLaren (voice)
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...

Good Bye, My Secret Friend
2009
as Narrator
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...

Honokaa Boy
2009
as Kaoru
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.

Tokyo!
2008
as Pizza-Delivery Girl (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. ...

One Million Yen Girl
2008
as Suzuko Sato
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 ...

Sex Is No Laughing Matter
2008
as En
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...

Best Wishes for Tomorrow
2007
as Kazuko Moribe
A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.

Welcome to the Quiet Room
2007
as Miki
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...

Mushi-Shi: The Movie
2007
as Tanyu
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...

Rainbow Song
2006
as Kana Sato
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...

Tekkonkinkreet
2006
as Shiro (voice)
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...

Sugar & Spice
2006
as Girl on the Bus
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...

Hula Girls
2006
as Kimiko Tanikawa
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.

Honey and Clover
2006
as Hagu
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...

Yamato
2005
as Taeko
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 ...

Henshin
2005
as Kei Hamura

Shining Boy and Little Randy
2005
as Emi Murakami
Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in Thailand...

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
2005
as Kujaku Ogitani
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....

Letters from Kanai Nirai
2005
as Fuki Asato
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuk...

Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005
as Mami Tachibana
One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.

呪戒-JUKAI-
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...

Filming H&A
2005
Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit Kat

Umineko - Inseparable
2004
as Miya Noda
The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a hospita...

Nanako and Nanao: the Day They Became Sister and Brother
2004
as Nanako
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...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
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 ...

Hana & Alice
2004
as Tetsuko Arisugawa (Alice)
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

The Diary from the Past
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 i...
Mask de 41
2004
as Haruka Kuramochi
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...

1980
2003
as Rika Hashiba
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...

Worst by Chance
2003
as Harada's Girlfriend
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...

All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"
2002
The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS

Harmful Insect
2002
as Natsuko Yamaoka
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...

Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro
2001
as Shiina Kasumi
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...

All About Lily Chou-Chou
2001
as Shiori Tsuda
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationsh...