Yu Aoi

Actor · Born 17 August 1985 in Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan · 8 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

8 of Yu Aoi’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 6 on Netflix, 2 on Cineasterna and 1 on Prime Video. Highest rated available: Asura (2025) ★ 7.5.

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

• Human Vapor (2026)
• Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)
• Asura (2025)
• Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)
• Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno (2014)
• Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends (2014)
• Sylvanian Families: The Movie (2023)
• Killing (2018)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)
• Redline (2009)
• Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
• Tokyo Ghoul (2017)
• Children of the Sea (2019)
• All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
• Tokyo! (2008)
• Penguin Highway (2018)
• The Case of Hana & Alice (2015)
• Hana & Alice (2004)
• Wife of a Spy (2020)
• Tokyo Family (2013)