Actor

YU

49 credited titles on WatchWise

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.

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Latest release

Strongest genre

Highest grossing

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

$53M

Standout efficiency

3.7x

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins · gross ÷ budget

Commercial performance

Associated lifetime gross

$21M

Combined reported budget

$14M

Gross / budget

1.5x

Bankability Index

30 / 100

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What drives the index

1.6x return · 70% of films profitable · trending down · little recent work. Weighted toward recent releases (a film counts half as much every 6 years) and toward titles they actually carried.

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