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Yu Aoi

Also known as: Aoi Yū - Yu Yamasato - Yū Aoi - Yū Natsui - 蒼井優

Yu Aoi alias list

Aoi Yū - Alternate spelling

蒼井優 - Different alphabet (Russian, ...)

Yū Aoi - Name with special characters

Yū Natsui - Real name

Yu Yamasato - Married name

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Yu Aoi Biography

Personal

Age: 40 years old

Born: Saturday 17th of August 1985

Years active: 1999-present (started around 13 years old; 27 years active)

Birthplace: Fukuoka, Japan

Nationality: (Japanese)

Ethnicity: Asian

Professions: Actress, Gravure Idol, Model

Sexuality: Straight

Body

Eye color: Brown

Height: 5'3" (or 160 cm)

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Instagram follower count: 52k (as of May 2026)

About Yu Aoi

Yu Aoi (蒼井優, Aoi Yū, born August 17, 1985) is a Japanese actress and model. 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, Hagumi Hanamoto in the 2006 live-action adaptation of the Honey and Clover manga series and Megumi Takani in the 2012 live-action adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin.

She has won numerous awards for her performances on screen, including the 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.