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Koyuki
Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
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…
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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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2026
Legal Beat
TV show Asumi Yukimura
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2026
Crossroad
TV show Machi Nomiya
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2026
The Light We Cast
TV show Hoshino Momoka
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2026
We Are Worse at Love Than Pandas
TV show Mirei Fujisaki
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2024
つたえたい〜僕たちは感染症時代を生きている〜
TV show Narrator
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2024
Sky Castle
TV show
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2023
Sanctuary
TV show Hana
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2022
A Mother's Touch
Movie Reiko Fukushima
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2020
Bones of Steel
TV show
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2020
Today's Nekomura
TV show Inugami Saeko
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2019
Top League
TV show
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2019
The Naked Director
TV show Kayo
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2019
Trace ~ Men of the science school ~
TV show Ritsuko Kaizuka
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2017
Flat Broke Mom
TV show Yuzuko Nanakusa
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2016
Gold Woman
Movie Tamaki Yoshizawa
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2016
Fragile
TV show Madoka Hosoki
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2015
Persona Non Grata
Movie
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2014
The Long Goodbye
TV show Aiko Kamiido
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2013
Onna Nobunaga
TV show
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2012
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2012
Legal High
TV show Kiwa Ando
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2012
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
Movie Hiromi Ishizaki
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2011
Phone Call to the Bar
Movie Saori
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2010
Forget Me Not
Movie
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2010
Detective Lovesick
TV show Yumi Hagio
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2010
Women Play Twice
Movie
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2009
It's On Me
Movie Maya Yamabuki
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2009
Wasted Land
TV show Chisato Akitsu
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2009
Kamui
Movie Sugaru
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2009
MR.BRAIN
TV show
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2009
Blood: The Last Vampire
Movie Onigen
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2008
The Battle of Mr. and Mrs. Sasaki
TV show Ritsuko Sasaki
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2007
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
Movie Hiromi Ishizaki
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2007
Kitaro
Movie Tenko
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2006
Time Limit Investigator
TV show Misako Kaminuma
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2005
Always - Sunset on Third Street
Movie Hiromi Ishizaki
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2005
Engine
TV show Tomomi Mizukoshi
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2004
Jam Films S
Movie
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2004
Warau Iemon
Movie O-Iwa (Tamiya Iwa)
