Koyuki
Koyuki Katō (born December 18, 1976), better known as Koyuki, is a Japanese model and actress. Koyuki was born in Zama, Kanagawa-ken. She started her modeling career in 1995 and has since starred in various Japanese dramas, TV and magazine ad campaigns and films. She frequently appears in Japanese print and television campaigns for the electronics company Panasonic. She rose to fame in the drama Kimi wa petto (2003) with Jun Matsumoto and gained huge popularity. Her first international film was The Last Samurai (2003) where she played Taka, wife of a Samurai slain by the character Nathan Algren, portrayed by Tom Cruise, Koyuki was well-known in Japan for years before that. She first caught the attention of the public in 1997 by winning an exclusive modelling contract with the magazine Non-no, but quickly grew beyond modelling and has earned acclaim as an actress through her many roles on Japanese television and in several Japanese films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Koyuki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2024 · I want to tell you~We live in an age of infectious diseases~ as
- 2024 · Sky Castle as
- 2023 · Sanctuary as Hana
- 2022 · A Mother's Touch as Reiko Fukushima
- 2020 · Bones of Steel as
- 2020 · Today's Nekomura as Inugami Saeko
- 2019 · Top League as
- 2019 · The Naked Director as Kayo
- 2019 · Trace ~ Men of the science school ~ as Ritsuko Kaizuka
- 2017 · Flat Broke Mom as Yuzuko Nanakusa
- 2016 · Gold Woman as Tamaki Yoshizawa
- 2016 · Fragile as Madoka Hosoki
- 2015 · Persona Non Grata as
- 2014 · The Long Goodbye as Aiko Kamiido
- 2013 · Onna Nobunaga as
- 2012 · Legal High as 安藤貴和
- 2012 · Legal High as 安藤貴和(あんどう きわ)〈35〉
- 2012 · Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 as Hiromi Ishizaki
- 2011 · Phone Call to the Bar as Saori
- 2010 · Forget Me Not as
- 2010 · Detective Lovesick as Yumi Hagio
- 2010 · Women Play Twice as
- 2009 · It's On Me as Maya Yamabuki
- 2009 · The Waste Land as Chisato Akitsu
- 2009 · Kamui as Sugaru
- 2009 · MR.BRAIN as
- 2009 · Blood: The Last Vampire as Onigen
- 2008 · The Battle of Mr. and Mrs. Sasaki as Ritsuko Sasaki
- 2007 · Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 as Hiromi Ishizaki
- 2007 · Kitaro as Tenko
- 2006 · Time Limit Investigator as Misako Kaminuma
- 2005 · Always - Sunset on Third Street as Hiromi Ishizaki
- 2005 · Engine as Tomomi Mizukoshi
- 2005 · Jam Films S as
- 2004 · Warau Iemon as O-Iwa (Tamiya Iwa)
- 2004 · The Way We Live as Yura Kitajima
- 2003 · The Last Samurai as Taka
- 2003 · The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters as 柏倉 幸子
- 2003 · Alive as Asuka Saegusa
- 2003 · Spy Sorge as Yoshiko Yamazaki
- 2003 · You're My Pet as 巌谷スミレ
- 2003 · Kaleidoscope as Kaede Katsuragi
- 2002 · Psycho Doctor as Reiko
- 2002 · Searchin' for My Polestar as Mifuyu Sawamura
- 2002 · Laundry as Mizue
- 2001 · Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop as Momoko Izuka
- 2001 · I Wanna Fall in Love as Kuroki Reiko
- 2001 · My Husband as Chizuru Toyama(遠山 千鶴)
- 2001 · Pulse as Harue Karasawa
- 2001 · Don't Let Your Money Down as
- 2000 · Love Complex as Kiiko Ninagawa
- 2000 · Legendary Teacher as Aya Saito(斎藤 アヤ)
- 2000 · Ikebukuro West Gate Park as Kana Matsui
- 2000 · Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer as
- 2000 · Beautiful Life as Satsuki Nakajima
- 1999 · Scary Fairy Tales: The Little Mermaid as
- 1999 · 恋爱结婚の法则 as
- 1999 · The Rules of Marrying for Love as
- 1998 · Tabloid as
- 1998 · Shomuni as
- 1998 · Can't Hurry for Love as