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.

Filmography

• 2027In My Father's Room — Satomi
• Human Vapor — Kyoko Kono
• Until the T-Shirt Dries — Sakiko Seo
• Asura — Takiko
• 2025Go! Anpanman: Chapon’s Hero! — Chapon (voice)
• 2025How Dare You? — Keiko Ueda
• 2025Meets the World — Yuki
• 2025Tokyo Taxi — Young Sumire
• Boogie Woogie — Reiko Yamato
• FRONTIERS — Narrator
• 2023Sylvanian Families: The Movie — Teri Chocolate (voice)
• 2022Dr. Coto's Clinic — Mina Nakai
• 2021Rurouni Kenshin: The Final — Megumi Takani
• 2021Shikatanakatta to Yuute wa Ikan Nodesu — Fusako Torii
• 2020Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone — Momoko
• 2020Romance Doll — Sonoko Kitamura
• 2020Wife of a Spy — Satoko Fukuhara
• 2020戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～
• 2019A Long Goodbye — Fumi Higashi
• 2019Children of the Sea — Kanako Azumi (voice)
• 2019From Miyamoto to You — Yasuko Nakano
• 2019They Say Nothing Stays the Same — Geisha
• From Miyamoto to You — 中野靖子
• 2018Killing — Yu
• 2018Penguin Highway — Onē-san (voice)
• 2018What a Wonderful Family! 3 — Noriko Mamiya
• このマンガがすごい！ — navigator
• 2017Birds Without Names — Towako Kitahara
• Hello, Detective Hedgehog — Setsuko Kawai
• 2017Mixed Doubles — Yo
• My High School Business — Chihiro Mashiba
• 2017Tokyo Ghoul — Rize Kamishiro
• 2017What a Wonderful Family! 2 — Noriko Mamiya
• 2016Haruko Azumi Is Missing — Haruko Azumi
• 2016Over the Fence — Satoshi Tamura
• 2016What a Wonderful Family! — Noriko Mamiya
• Dr. Rintaro, Psychiatrist — 梦乃
• 2015Journey to the Shore — Tomoko
• Song FUKUYAMA
• 2015The Case of Hana & Alice — Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa (voice)
• All About My Siblings — Azusa Sawabe
• 2014Climbing to Spring — Ai Takazawa
• MOZU — Shiori Nanami
• 2014Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno — Megumi Takani
• 2014Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends — Megumi Takani
• 2014Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III — Neko no me o gin
• 2014四代目市川猿之助 斬新という宿命
• NHK for School
• 2013Penance — Sae Kikuchi
• 2013Space Pirate Captain Harlock — Miime (voice)
• The Farthest Galaxy — Misato Ebata / Akane Seike
• 2013Tokyo Family — Noriko Mamiya
• 2012Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
• Penance — Sae Kikuchi
• 2012Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins — Megumi Takani
• 2011By Chance
• 2011Fukushima Hula Girls — Narrator (voice)
• 2011Patisserie Coin De Rue — Natsume Usuba
• 2011Vampire — Mina
• 2010About Her Brother — Koharu Takano
• Detective Lovesick — Setsuko Konuma
• 2010Flowers — Rin
• 2010Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II — Jadwiga (voice)
• Ryōmaden — Omoto
• 2010The Lightning Tree — Rai / Yu
• 2009Good Bye, My Secret Friend — Narrator
• 2009Honokaa Boy — Kaoru
• 2009Miyori's Forest — Miyori (voice)
• 2009Redline — Sonoshee McLaren (voice)
• Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage — Chika/Makoto/Umeko/Suzuko
• 2008One Million Yen Girl — Suzuko Sato
• Osen — Sen Handa
• 2008Sex Is No Laughing Matter — En
• 2008Tokyo! — Pizza-Delivery Girl (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
• 2007Best Wishes for Tomorrow — Kazuko Moribe
• Galileo — Kanbara Atsuko
• 2007Mushi-Shi: The Movie — Tanyu
• 2007Welcome to the Quiet Room — Miki
• 2006Honey and Clover — Hagu
• 2006Hula Girls — Kimiko Tanikawa
• 2006Rainbow Song — Kana Sato
• 2006Sugar & Spice — Girl on the Bus
• 2006Tekkonkinkreet — Shiro (voice)
• 2005Filming H&A
• 2005Henshin — Kei Hamura
• 2005Letters from Nirai Kanai — Fuki Asato
• 2005Shining Boy & Little Randy — Emi Murakami
• 2005Tetsujin 28: The Movie — Mami Tachibana
• 2005Tiger & Dragon Special — Risa
• Tiger and Dragon — Risa
• 2005Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers — Kujaku Ogitani
• 2005Yamato — Taeko
• 2005呪戒-JUKAI-
• 2004Hana & Alice — Tetsuko Arisugawa (Alice)
• 2004Mask de 41 — Haruka Kuramochi
• 2004Nanako and Nanao: the Day They Became Sister and Brother — Nanako
• 2004Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
• 2004The Diary from the Past
• 2004Umineko - Inseparable — Miya Noda
• 14ヶ月〜妻が子供に還っていく〜
• 20031980 — Rika Hashiba
• Dr. Coto's Clinic — 仲依ミナ
• Hana & Alice — Alice
• Kou Kou Kyoushi — Ezawa Mami
• 2003Worst by Chance — Harada's Girlfriend
• 演技者 狂い咲きヴァージンロード
• 2002All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"
• 2002Harmful Insect — Natsuko Yamaoka
• 2002Olfactogram
• The Summer Promise
• 2001All About Lily Chou-Chou — Shiori Tsuda
• 2001Blue and White Make Light Blue — Shiina Kasumi
• Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 20th year reunion — self