2006Nominee
Best Performance
Sugar & Spice
Yu Aoi
Actor
Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan
August 17, 1985
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.
Photo
Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2001Nominee
Best Performance
All About Lily Chou-Chou
2021Winner
Best Performance
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Career Highlights
2012Highlight
Best Performance
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
2014Highlight
Best Performance
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Video
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins