Koyuki
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.
Born: December 18, 1976
Place of Birth: Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Narrator
as Hana
as Reiko Fukushima
as Inugami Saeko
as Kayo
as Ritsuko Kaizuka
as Yuzuko Nanakusa
as Tamaki Yoshizawa
as Madoka Hosoki
as Aiko Kamiido
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as 安藤貴和
as 安藤貴和（あんどう きわ）〈35〉
as Hiromi Ishizaki
as Saori
as Yumi Hagio
as Maya Yamabuki
as Chisato Akitsu
as Sugaru
as Onigen
as Ritsuko Sasaki
as Hiromi Ishizaki
as Tenko
as Misako Kaminuma
as Hiromi Ishizaki
as Tomomi Mizukoshi
as O-Iwa (Tamiya Iwa)
as Yura Kitajima
as Taka
as Asuka Saegusa
as Yoshiko Yamazaki
as 巌谷スミレ
as Kaede Katsuragi
as Reiko
as Mifuyu Sawamura
as Mizue
as Momoko Izuka
as Kuroki Reiko
as Chizuru Toyama（遠山 千鶴）
as Harue Karasawa
as Kiiko Ninagawa
as Aya Saito（斎藤 アヤ）
as Kana Matsui
as Satsuki Nakajima