Aoi Yu

Q: Has Aoi Yu won any awards?

Yes, Aoi Yu has received several awards, including the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actress for her role in 'Mother.' Her performances have garnered critical acclaim throughout her career.

Q: When did Aoi Yu start her acting career?

Aoi Yu began her acting career in 2003 with her film debut in 'All About My Dog.' She quickly gained recognition for her talent in subsequent roles.

Q: What is Aoi Yu's background?

Aoi Yu was born in Tokyo, Japan, and originally started her career as a model. She transitioned to acting and has since become one of Japan's most respected actresses.

Q: Does Aoi Yu have any children?

Yes, Aoi Yu has one child with her husband, Yoshiyuki Morishita. The name of their child is not publicly known.

Q: What is Aoi Yu's estimated net worth?

Aoi Yu's estimated net worth is around 5 million USD. Her successful acting career and endorsements contribute to her financial status.

Q: What are some of Aoi Yu's filmography milestones?

Some milestones in Aoi Yu's filmography include her breakout role in 'Nana' (2005) and her critically acclaimed performance in 'Mother' (2020), which earned her numerous accolades.

Q: Is Aoi Yu active in television?

Yes, Aoi Yu has appeared in various television dramas in Japan, showcasing her versatility as an actress. Her roles often attract significant viewership and critical praise.

Known for

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2010)

IMDb 6.4 / 10

2010 / Animation, Sci-Fi / 100 min

Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)

IMDb 7.4 / 10

2012 / Action, Drama / 134 min

Former legendary assassin Kenshin Himura has now become a wandering samurai. Offering aid & protecting those in need as atonement for his past deeds....

Name

Aoi Yu

Height

5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Born

14 November 1982, Tokyo, Japan

Spouses

Yoshiyuki Morishita (2012–present)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Yoshiko Aoi, Tetsuo Aoi

Estimated Net Worth

5 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	TV Until the T-Shirt Dries A sudden summer accident shatters the peaceful lives of two couples, dragging a happily married editor into a web of...	Sakiko	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2026	TV Human Vapor A death on live TV. A culprit who turns to gas. Behind it, a secret project that used and discarded...	Kyoko Kono	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2025	Movie Tokyo Taxi One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tokyo to a senior care...	Young Sumire	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	Movie Meets the World Yukari, a 27-year old fujoshi fangirl who loves the popular yakiniku-themed pretty boy anime "Meat is Mine", ends up meeting...	Yuki	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	Movie How Dare You? Yuji Ueda, an ordinary fourth grader, is attracted to his classmate Kokoa Miyake. She is attracted to Hashimoto Haruto, a...	Keiko Ueda	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2025	Movie Go! Anpanman: Chapon’s Hero! Centers on Chapon, a mysterious boy who falls from the sky without any knowledge of where he came from. Staying...	Chapon (voice)	Not rated
2025	TV Asura In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly...	Takiko	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2023	TV FRONTIERS The documentary series features pioneers who are opening up frontiers in various fields such as science, space, culture, history, art,...	Narrator	Not rated
2023	Movie Sylvanian Families: The Movie In the enchanting village of Sylvania, Freya, a sweet Chocolate Rabbit girl, tackles two fun tasks for the Star Festival:...	Teri Chocolate (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	TV Boogie Woogie Sets in the 1910s, this is the story of Hanada Suzuko, a young girl who grew up in a family...	Reiko Yamato	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	Movie Dr. Coto's Clinic In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from...	Mina Nakai	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2021	TV 20th year reunion	self	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2021	Movie Shikatanakatta to Yuute wa Ikan Nodesu An medical student unwillingly assists in human experiments on American POWs during WWII and gets sentenced to death in the...	Fusako Torii	Not rated
2021	Movie Rurouni Kenshin: The Final In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've...	Megumi Takani	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2020	Movie Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two...	Momoko	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2020	Movie Wife of a Spy It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of...	Satoko Fukuhara	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2020	Movie 戦争童画集～75年目のショートストーリー～	Unknown character	Not rated
2020	Movie Romance Doll It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife...	Sonoko Kitamura	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	Movie From Miyamoto to You Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young...	Yasuko Nakano	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2019	Movie 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 rowing...	Geisha	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	Movie Children of the Sea Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi...	Kanako Azumi (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	Movie A Long Goodbye Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their...	Fumi Higashi	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie Killing In mid-19th century Edo period, a masterless rōnin named Mokunoshin Tsuzuki resides in a peaceful village among those he helps....	Yu	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2018	TV このマンガがすごい！	navigator	Not rated
2018	Movie Penguin Highway A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to...	Onē-san (voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2018	Movie What a Wonderful Family! 3 At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls...	Noriko Mamiya	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2018	TV From Miyamoto to You The story follows an amateur salaryman named Hiroshi Miyamoto, who works at a stationary company and pushes forward despite his...	中野靖子	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2017	Movie Birds Without Names An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.	Towako Kitahara	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2017	Movie Mixed Doubles To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy...	Yo	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	TV My High School Business Rosuke Narumi works at a trading company and he is pretty good at his job. He dates Satoko Matsubara. The...	Chihiro Mashiba	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2017	Movie Tokyo Ghoul A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but...	Rize Kamishiro	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2017	TV Hello, Detective Hedgehog Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take...	Setsuko Kawai	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	Movie What a Wonderful Family! 2 Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new...	Noriko Mamiya	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2016	Movie Haruko Azumi Is Missing While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who...	Haruko Azumi	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2016	Movie Over the Fence A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with...	Satoshi Tamura	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2016	Movie What a Wonderful Family! A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she...	Noriko Mamiya	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2015	TV Song FUKUYAMA	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Journey to the Shore Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki...	Tomoko	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2015	TV Dr. Rintaro, Psychiatrist A psychiatrist, Rintaro Hino, listens closely to the aching hearts of people, relieving them of their pain. His practice is...	梦乃	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	Movie The Case of Hana & Alice After transferring to Ishinomori Middle School, Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa overhears her classmates discussing a strange rumor. The previous occupant of...	Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2014	Movie 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 trains with...	Megumi Takani	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2014	Movie 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 request...	Megumi Takani	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2014	TV All About My Siblings Five siblings struggle to live together after their parents have passed away. Arguments are a norm, and each have their...	Azusa Sawabe	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2014	Movie Climbing to Spring Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain...	Ai Takazawa	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2014	TV MOZU An explosion take place in a street of Tokyo. Many people were killed or seriously injured. One casualty is Chihiro,...	Shiori Nanami	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2014	Movie Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III Goemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but Private Detective Shinkuro...	Neko no me o gin	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2014	Movie 四代目市川猿之助斬新という宿命	Unknown character	Not rated
2013	Movie Space Pirate Captain Harlock Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet...	Miime (voice)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2013	Movie Penance The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili...	Sae Kikuchi	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	TV NHK for School	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2013	TV The Farthest Galaxy Detective Seiichiro Watari is nearing retirement, but is still bothered by an unsolved case from seven years ago when the...	Misato Ebata / Akane Seike	Not rated
2013	Movie Tokyo Family An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.	Noriko Mamiya	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2012	Movie Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2012	Movie Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the...	Megumi Takani	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2012	TV Penance The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates...	Sae Kikuchi	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2011	Movie Fukushima Hula Girls The Hawaiian Spa Resort in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. This documentary accompanies their...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie By Chance A young woman travels to Ireland. She comes across unexpected meetings, inspiration and even miracles.	Unknown character	Not rated
2011	Movie Vampire An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.	Mina	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie Patisserie Coin De Rue A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a...	Natsume Usuba	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2010	Movie The Lightning Tree Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree...	Rai / Yu	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	TV Detective Lovesick He was the pride of his police department as the number one armed robbery buster... until he had his heart...	Setsuko Konuma	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2010	Movie Flowers Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the...	Rin	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	Movie 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...	Jadwiga (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2010	Movie About Her Brother Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times...	Koharu Takano	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2010	TV Ryōmaden Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning...	Omoto	TMDB 9.1 / 10
2009	Movie Miyori's Forest After being deserted by her parents, 11-year old Miyori shuts her heart from the rest of the world and denies...	Miyori (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2009	Movie Redline A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs...	Sonoshee McLaren (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	Movie 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 heartfelt story of a...	Narrator	Not rated
2009	Movie Honokaa Boy Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.	Kaoru	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2008	Movie Tokyo! Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins...	Pizza-Delivery Girl (segment "Shaking Tokyo")	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2008	Movie One Million Yen Girl A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She...	Suzuko Sato	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2008	TV Osen Handa Sen is the "okami" (proprietress) of a long-standing restaurant in one of Tokyo's lower districts. Though she is normally...	Sen Handa	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2008	TV Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage The series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The directors were given freedom in their...	Chika/Makoto/Umeko/Suzuko	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	Movie 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...	En	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2007	Movie Best Wishes for Tomorrow A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.	Kazuko Moribe	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2007	Movie Welcome to the Quiet Room 28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected...	Miki	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2007	TV Galileo Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while...	Kanbara Atsuko	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2007	Movie Mushi-Shi: The Movie Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most...	Tanyu	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	Movie Tekkonkinkreet Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens...	Shiro (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2006	Movie Rainbow Song Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close...	Kana Sato	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie Sugar & Spice Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy...	Girl on the Bus	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2006	Movie Hula Girls Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist...	Kimiko Tanikawa	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2006	Movie Honey and Clover Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art...	Hagu	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2005	Movie Yamato Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the...	Taeko	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2005	Movie Henshin Henshin tells the story of Junichi, a young boy who is forced to go through a life-saving brain transplantation. By...	Kei Hamura	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie Shining Boy & Little Randy Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for...	Emi Murakami	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2005	Movie Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day,...	Kujaku Ogitani	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie Letters from Nirai Kanai Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her...	Fuki Asato	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2005	TV Tiger and Dragon A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic "rakugo" performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the...	Risa	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2005	Movie Tetsujin 28: The Movie One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.	Mami Tachibana	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie 呪戒-JUKAI- A horror suspense film to be released in February 2005, in which Reiko SUHO plays a college student who is...	Unknown character	Not rated
2005	Movie Filming H&A Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit...	Unknown character	Not rated
2005	Movie Tiger & Dragon Special The prequel to the TV series "Tiger and Dragon" broadcast as a two-hour special before the series.	Risa	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2004	Movie Umineko - Inseparable The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating...	Miya Noda	TMDB 3.3 / 10
2004	Movie 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, suddenly...	Nanako	Not rated
2004	Movie Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special ***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo Anata ni" (we bring...	Unknown character	Not rated
2004	Movie Hana & Alice Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door...	Tetsuko Arisugawa (Alice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie The Diary from the Past A writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written by a teenage girl (Yû...	Unknown character	Not rated
2004	Movie Mask de 41 Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao...	Haruka Kuramochi	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie 1980 A former idol becomes a teacher at the high school she graduated from, but her new career is threatened by...	Rika Hashiba	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2003	Movie Worst by Chance Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts around and meanders through life...	Harada's Girlfriend	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2003	TV 14ヶ月〜妻が子供に還っていく〜	Unknown character	Not rated
2003	TV Dr. Coto's Clinic Dr. Goto Kensuke transfers to a remote island clinic after an incident at his Tokyo hospital. His first task: winning...	仲依ミナ	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2003	TV 演技者狂い咲きヴァージンロード	Unknown character	Not rated
2003	TV Hana & Alice Web/video series by Shunji Iwai. Commissioned by Nestle for breaktown.com. Later adapted into feature film.	Alice	Not rated
2003	TV Kou Kou Kyoushi Hina, a student at Nikko High School, goes out one evening with her classmate Beniko. They get split up and...	Ezawa Mami	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2002	TV The Summer Promise Yoko is aiming to become an actress in the city far away from her home. I lost my husband in...	Unknown character	Not rated
2002	Movie All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou" The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2002	Movie Harmful Insect 13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her...	Natsuko Yamaoka	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2002	Movie Olfactogram Amateur band guitarist Minoru Katagiri becomes unconscious when someone hits his head at her sister's house. When he regains consciousness...	Unknown character	Not rated
2001	Movie Blue and White Make Light Blue Uchiyama Kaede and Shiina Kasumi used to be best friends. Now in high school, Kasumi grew more popular than Kaede,...	Shiina Kasumi	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2001	Movie All About Lily Chou-Chou Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of...	Shiori Tsuda	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1990	TV Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen	Unknown character	TMDB 9.5 / 10
TBA	Movie In My Father's Room After receiving a key to her late father's room, art museum employee Satomi traces his final days and discovers a...	Satomi	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2024	Movie Wrapped in Poison, Healed by Love	Director Directing	Not rated

Tokyo Taxi

2025 / TMDB 7.3

Meets the World

2025 / TMDB 7.0

How Dare You?

2025 / TMDB 5.4

Go! Anpanman: Chapon’s Hero!

2025

Sylvanian Families: The Movie

2023 / TMDB 6.0

Dr. Coto's Clinic

2022 / TMDB 7.6

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