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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1976-12-18 (48 years old)

Place of Birth

Zama, Kanagawa, Japan

Koyuki

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.

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Known For

Acting

2025

2024

2023

Sanctuary as Hana

2022

A Mother's Touch as Reiko Fukushima

2020

2019

2017

Flat Broke Mom as Yuzuko Nanakusa

2016

Gold Woman as Tamaki Yoshizawa
Fragile as Madoka Hosoki

2015

2014

The Long Goodbye as Aiko Kamiido

2013

2012

Legal High as 安藤貴和
Legal High as 安藤貴和(あんどう きわ)〈35〉

2011

2010

2009

Kamui as Sugaru
It's On Me as Maya Yamabuki
The Waste Land as Chisato Akitsu

2008

2007

Kitaro as Tenko

2006

Time Limit Investigator as Misako Kaminuma

2005

Engine as Tomomi Mizukoshi

2004

Warau Iemon as O-Iwa (Tamiya Iwa)
The Way We Live as Yura Kitajima

2003

Alive as Asuka Saegusa
Spy Sorge as Yoshiko Yamazaki
Kaleidoscope as Kaede Katsuragi
You're My Pet as 巌谷スミレ

2002

Laundry as Mizue
Searchin' for My Polestar as Mifuyu Sawamura
Psycho Doctor as Reiko

2001

Pulse as Harue Karasawa
I Wanna Fall in Love as Kuroki Reiko
My Husband as Chizuru Toyama(遠山 千鶴)

2000

Love Complex as Kiiko Ninagawa
Beautiful Life as Satsuki Nakajima
Legendary Teacher as Aya Saito(斎藤 アヤ)

1999

1998