Ayumi Ito
Born in Tokyo, Ayumi Ito has always had a love for movies and art. She made her big-screen debut in Nobuhiko Obayashi's The Water Travelers: Samurai Kids. Her distinctive style led to her critically acclaimed performance in Swallowtail Butterfly, directed by the renowned Director Shunji Iwai. At 16-years-old, Ayumi was awarded both the Best New Actress Award as well as the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 20th Annual Japanese Academy Awards. Ayumi's career has blossomed into starring roles in several successful films and television shows. She trained in LA and New York and has worked globally with world-renown Chinese director and artist Zhuangzhuang Tian, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), among other great filmmakers. Ayumi's performance in the the Fuji TV drama Belle de Jour was so strong that she reprised the role when it became a feature film and box-office hit, earning over 2.3 billion JPY. She is also the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Off-screen, Ayumi is a talented vocalist and recording artist. Her passion for art continues to thrive and she brings characters to life in her performances.
Gantz
as Eriko AyukawaAfter trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a...
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
as Yōko KunoCharts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the...
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
as Tifa Lockhart (voice)Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city...
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Gantz: Perfect Answer
as Eriko AyukawaSummoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows...
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Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
as Tifa Lockhart (voice)It's been four years since Meteor fell on Midgar. Denzel meets Reeve at an outskirts coffee shop...
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Sekigahara
as ShirohebiThe background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in...
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Tokyo!
as Akemi (segment "Interior Design")Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller,...
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Swallowtail Butterfly
as AgehaThe struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
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Immersion
as uncreditedMysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear...
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Hana and Alice
as Saori IkedaTwo teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a...
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A Story of Yonosuke
as Chiharu KataseThe year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old...
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Final Fantasy VII: Last Order
as Tifa Lockhart (voice)In the events of Last Order, taking place five years before the beginning of Final Fantasy VII...
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Bandage
as Nobuko YukariSet in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high...
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Solanin
as Ai KotaniMeiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend...
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as TamamiAdapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age...
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Story Game
as MichikoWho can tell the scariest story? Three friends try to out wit each other on a camping trip in...
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Dr. Coto's Clinic
as Rika AndoIn this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more...
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Dr. Akagi
as uncreditedAt the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the...
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Judge!
as Kiichiro Ota's Ex-girlfriendAfter taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his...
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Labyrinth of Cinema
as Yoshiko KawashimaThe only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of...
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Last Quarter
as Sayaka KamijoDo you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't...
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The Blue Bird
as Ms. ShimazakiHigashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been...
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Sunday's Dream
as uncreditedKazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same...
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Into the Faraway Sky
as SawakoA vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight –...
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Hold Up Down
as Kyoko MiyazakiA bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop...
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The Go Master
as Kazuko NakaharaThe life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune...
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Tokyo Rhapsody
as uncredited"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as...
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Noise
as Chihiro AokiShishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing...
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Samurai Kids
as Chizuko KusubayashiA special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient...
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Sada
as MaidThe film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover...
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Hirugao
as Noriko KitanoSet 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where...
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After the Flowers
as KayoIto, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking...
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Penance
as Mayu MurakamiThe murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body...
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People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
as IshikaSince the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but...
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A Day on the Planet
as KateSeven friends gather at a party in Kyoto to celebrate Masamichi's entry to graduate school. Maki...
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Be Sure to Share
as Yoko NakagawaShiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he...
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Owl
as EmikoA mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order...
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Farewell, Kuro
as Yukiko IgarashiBased on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a...
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Check It Out, Yo!
as Nagisa NakamuraTomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of...
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River of First Love
as Mika Inoue8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother,...
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Happy Go Lucky
as High School GirlTakashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back...
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All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"
as uncreditedThe making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story...
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Soup
as Mika ShibuyaKenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his...
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Cheer Boys!!
as Takagi SatsukiHaruki Bando decides to quit his family's sport of judo after a shoulder injury and start a new...
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The Motive
as Ayako TakaraiFour people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...
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Vanished
as ChieEight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to...
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Amateur Singing Contest
as uncreditedTraditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for...
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Crickets
as EikoKaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live...
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円都 YEN TOWN
as uncreditedMaking-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly
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The Room
as YumiYumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away...
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Chief - Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu
as Izumoto Norikoogane Takichi, the CEO of a construction company, is shot dead in the street in Nishi Shinjuku...
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With All Our Might
as Tamiko SakamotoTamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo...
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Fishes in August
as uncreditedA refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity
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Flower of Shanidar
as YurieA strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that...
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Dance! Dance! Dance!
as YukinoThe movie is set in Japan and tells the story of Furu, a young aspiring musician, who is...
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Clay Fear
as Zhen ZiPottery factory owner Ming Fu (Ng Kai Wah) is haunted by visions of the blazing death of his...
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Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 7
as uncreditedA collection of psychic images received by general posts. Fear multiplies! Earth-bound spirits,...
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Curtain Call
as Kaori HashimotoKaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a...
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Beyond Goodbye
as Midori TateishiAfter losing her fiancé in an accident, Saeko feels an inexplicable connection to a stranger —...
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Ohisama
as Natsuko TakahashiOhisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set...
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Tokyo Vice
as MisakiA first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American...
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Emergency Room 24 Hours
as uncreditedDr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate...
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Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon
as Noriko KitanoLife is simple for Sasamoto Sawa, a young housewife, but when the adulteress Takigawa Rikako...
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Grand Maison Tokyo
as uncreditedNatsuki Obana (Takuya Kimura) is a charismatic Japanese chef running a 2-star restaurant in...
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Midnight Diner
as IkumiSet in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open...
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Yu Yu Hakusho
as Atsuko UrameshiAfter a selfless act costs him his life, teen delinquent Yusuke Urameshi is chosen as a Spirit...
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Radiation House
as Shizuku IkedaIori Igarashi is a talented radiographer who believes the “truth” is definitely captured in CT...
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Wonderful Single Life
as Mizuki Kono"Kekkon Shinai" follows the lives of single people in their 30's and 40's.
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The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary
as uncreditedKishibe Midori (Ikeda Elaiza), an editor for a popular fashion magazine, finds herself...
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Last Man: The Blind Profiler
as uncreditedMinami Hiromi is an FBI agent visiting Japan from the US for a limited time. Minami lost his...
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Sherlock: Untold Stories
as Rieko Ichikawa（市川 利枝子）Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant....
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Lipstick
as Eriko MatsudaHayakawa Ai commits a crime which lands her in a correction facility for juveniles. There she...
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Shinigami-kun
as uncreditedShinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled...
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Never Let Me Go
as Horie Tatsuko30-year-old Kyoko has a "job". The story starts with her looking back 20 years to her boarding...
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Poison Daughter, Holy Mother
as uncreditedYumika is an actress. Since she was a child, she has had to endure her mother Yoshika (Shinobu...
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Penance
as Mayu MurakamiThe murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is...
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The Makioka Sisters
as Makioka YukikoTaking place in the spring of 1992, the story begins with the father of the Makioka company...
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Stolen Face
as ChiharuShirato Takamasa is a detective at the Investigation Cooperation Section of the Tokyo...
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Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance
as Tachi YoshinoIn this modern adaptation of the Dostoyevsky classic, a loner named Miroku takes it upon himself...
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I Prefer Tomorrow's You
as Satokawa AkaneMatsuo Ryo works at a gardening company. He thinks women are annoying. At a client’s office, he...
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Natsuko Kira
as Miyuki SakabeNatsuko is going back to the advertising agency she worked for before taking maternity leave and...
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Konkatsu Deka
as Hanada Yoneko35-year-old Hanada Yoneko is a detective of Ryogoku Police Precinct who is looking for a...
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Cecile's Plot
as Eri OkitaMiyaji is a full-time housewife who has no interest in dressing herself. One day, her life...
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