Koyuki
Born: 1976-12-18 in Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2026
- We Are Worse at Love Than Pandas as Mirei Fujisaki
- The Light We Cast as 星野桃花
2024
- Sky Castle
- つたえたい〜僕たちは感染症時代を生きている〜 as Narrator
2023
- Sanctuary as Hana
2022
- A Mother's Touch as Reiko Fukushima
2020
- Bones of Steel
- Today's Nekomura as Inugami Saeko
2019
- The Naked Director as Kayo
- Trace ~ Men of the science school ~ as Ritsuko Kaizuka
- Top League
2017
- Flat Broke Mom as Yuzuko Nanakusa
2016
- Fragile as Madoka Hosoki
- Gold Woman as Tamaki Yoshizawa
2015
2014
- The Long Goodbye as Aiko Kamiido
2013
2012
- Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Legal High as Kiwa Ando
- Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 as Hiromi Ishizaki
2011
- Phone Call to the Bar as Saori
2010
- Detective Lovesick as Yumi Hagio
- Women Play Twice
- Forget Me Not
2009
- Wasted Land as Chisato Akitsu
- MR.BRAIN
- Blood: The Last Vampire as Onigen
- Kamui as Sugaru
- It's On Me as Maya Yamabuki
2008
- The Battle of Mr. and Mrs. Sasaki as Ritsuko Sasaki
2007
- Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 as Hiromi Ishizaki
- Kitaro as Tenko
2006
- Time Limit Investigator as Misako Kaminuma
2005
- Engine as Tomomi Mizukoshi
- Always - Sunset on Third Street as Hiromi Ishizaki
2004
- The Way We Live as Yura Kitajima
- Warau Iemon as O-Iwa (Tamiya Iwa)
- Jam Films S
2003
- The Last Samurai as Taka
- You're My Pet as Sumire Iwaya
- Alive as Asuka Saegusa
- Spy Sorge as Yoshiko Yamazaki
- The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters as 柏倉 幸子
- Kaleidoscope as Kaede Katsuragi
2002
- Psycho Doctor as Reiko
- Laundry as Mizue
- Searchin' for My Polestar as Mifuyu Sawamura
2001
- Pulse as Harue Karasawa
- My Husband as Chizuru Toyama
- Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop as Momoko Izuka
- I Wanna Fall in Love as Kuroki Reiko
- Don't Let Your Money Down
2000
- Ikebukuro West Gate Park as Kana Matsui
- Beautiful Life as Satsuki Nakajima
- Love Complex as Kiiko Ninagawa
- Legendary Teacher as Aya Saito（斎藤 アヤ）
- Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer