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蒼井優

蒼井優

Acting1985Kasuga, 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.

Acting History

Future
2025
How Dare You?
as Keiko Ueda
Asura
TVas Takiko• 7 eps
2023
Sylvanian Families: The Movie
as Teri Chocolate (voice)
Boogie Woogie
TVas Reiko Yamato• 127 eps
FRONTIERS
TVas Narrator• 2 eps
2022
Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Mina Nakai
2021
20th year reunion
TVas self• 13 eps
2020
Wife of a Spy
as Satoko Fukuhara
Romance Doll
as Sonoko Kitamura
2019
Children of the Sea
as Kanako Azumi (voice)
From Miyamoto to You
as Yasuko Nakano
A Long Goodbye
as Fumi Higashi
2018
Penguin Highway
as Onē-san (voice)
Killing
as Yu
From Miyamoto To You
TVas 中野靖子• 12 eps
2017
Tokyo Ghoul
as Rize Kamishiro
Birds Without Names
as Towako Kitahara
Hello, Detective Hedgehog
TVas Setsuko Kawai• 10 eps
My High School Business
TVas Chihiro Mashiba• 10 eps
2016
What a Wonderful Family!
as Noriko Mamiya
Over the Fence
as Satoshi Tamura
2015
The Case of Hana & Alice
as Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa (voice)
Dr. Rintaro, Psychiatrist
TVas 梦乃• 10 eps
2014
Climbing to Spring
as Ai Takazawa
Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III
as Neko no me o gin
MOZU
TVas Shiori Nanami• 5 eps
All About My Siblings
TVas Azusa Sawabe• 11 eps
2013
Penance
as Sae Kikuchi
Tokyo Family
as Noriko Mamiya
The Farthest Galaxy
TVas Misato Ebata / Akane Seike• 2 eps
Galileo
TVas Kanbara Atsuko• 1 eps
2012
Penance
TVas Sae Kikuchi• 5 eps
2011
Fukushima Hula Girls
as Narrator (voice)
Patisserie Coin De Rue
as Natsume Usuba
Vampire
as Mina
2010
Flowers
as Rin
About Her Brother
as Koharu Takano
Detective Lovesick
TVas Setsuko Konuma• 1 eps
2009
Miyori's Forest
as Miyori (voice)
Redline
as Sonoshee McLaren (voice)
Honokaa Boy
as Kaoru
2008
Tokyo!
as Pizza-Delivery Girl (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
One Million Yen Girl
as Suzuko Sato
Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
TVas Chika/Makoto/Umeko/Suzuko• 12 eps
Osen
TVas Sen Handa• 10 eps
2007
Best Wishes for Tomorrow
as Kazuko Moribe
2006
Tekkonkinkreet
as Shiro (voice)
Hula Girls
as Kimiko Tanikawa
Rainbow Song
as Kana Sato
Sugar & Spice
as Girl on the Bus
Dr. Coto's Clinic
TVas 仲依ミナ• 11 eps
2005
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
as Mami Tachibana
Yamato
as Taeko
Henshin
as Kei Hamura
Tiger and Dragon
TVas Risa• 11 eps
2004
Hana & Alice
as Tetsuko Arisugawa (Alice)
Mask de 41
as Haruka Kuramochi
2003
Worst by Chance
as Harada's Girlfriend
1980
as Rika Hashiba
Kou Kou Kyoushi
TVas Ezawa Mami• 11 eps
Hana & Alice
TVas Alice• 3 eps
2002
Harmful Insect
as Natsuko Yamaoka
2001
Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro
as Shiina Kasumi

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
8/17/1985(40 years old)
Place of Birth
Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan