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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Koyuki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

The Naked Director

Time Limit Investigator

Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

Legal High

Trace ~ Men of the science school ~

Psycho Doctor

Shomuni

The Last Samurai
All Movies (24)
- The Window of Non-REM 2025 New Year2025
- A Mother's Touch2022 · as Reiko Fukushima
- Gold Woman2016 · as Tamaki Yoshizawa
- Persona Non Grata2015
- Always: Sunset on Third Street '642012 · as Hiromi Ishizaki
- Phone Call to the Bar2011 · as Saori
- Forget Me Not2010
- Women Play Twice2010
- It's On Me2009 · as Maya Yamabuki
- Kamui2009 · as Sugaru
- Blood: The Last Vampire2009 · as Onigen
- Always: Sunset on Third Street 22007 · as Hiromi Ishizaki
- Kitaro2007 · as Tenko
- Always - Sunset on Third Street2005 · as Hiromi Ishizaki
- Jam Films S2004
- Warau Iemon2004 · as O-Iwa (Tamiya Iwa)
- The Last Samurai2003 · as Taka
- Alive2003 · as Asuka Saegusa
- Spy Sorge2003 · as Yoshiko Yamazaki
- Kaleidoscope2003 · as Kaede Katsuragi
- Laundry2002 · as Mizue
- Pulse2001 · as Harue Karasawa
- Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer2000
- Scary Fairy Tales: The Little Mermaid1999
All TV Shows (40)
- The Light We Cast2026 · as 星野桃花
- We Are Worse at Love Than Pandas2026 · as Mirei Fujisaki
- つたえたい〜僕たちは感染症時代を生きている〜2024 · as Narrator
- Sky Castle2024
- Sanctuary2023 · as Hana
- Bones of Steel2020
- Today's Nekomura2020 · as Inugami Saeko
- Top League2019
- The Naked Director2019 · as Kayo
- Trace ~ Men of the science school ~2019 · as Ritsuko Kaizuka
- Flat Broke Mom2017 · as Yuzuko Nanakusa
- Fragile2016 · as Madoka Hosoki
- The Long Goodbye2014 · as Aiko Kamiido
- Onna Nobunaga2013
- Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue2012 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Legal High2012 · as Kiwa Ando
- Detective Lovesick2010 · as Yumi Hagio
- Wasted Land2009 · as Chisato Akitsu
- MR.BRAIN2009
- The Battle of Mr. and Mrs. Sasaki2008 · as Ritsuko Sasaki
- Time Limit Investigator2006 · as Misako Kaminuma
- Engine2005 · as Tomomi Mizukoshi
- The Way We Live2004 · as Yura Kitajima
- The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters2003 · as Sachiko Kashiwakura
- You're My Pet2003 · as Sumire Iwaya
- Psycho Doctor2002 · as Reiko
- Searchin' for My Polestar2002 · as Mifuyu Sawamura
- Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop2001 · as Momoko Izuka
- I Wanna Fall in Love2001 · as Kuroki Reiko
- My Husband2001 · as Chizuru Toyama
- Don't Let Your Money Down2001
- Love Complex2000 · as Kiiko Ninagawa
- Legendary Teacher2000 · as Aya Saito(斎藤 アヤ)
- Ikebukuro West Gate Park2000 · as Kana Matsui
- Beautiful Life2000 · as Satsuki Nakajima
- 恋愛結婚の法則1999
- The Rules of Marrying for Love1999
- Tabloid1998
- Shomuni1998
- Can't Hurry for Love1998