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Koyuki
ActorBorn December 18, 1976 (49 years)
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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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
Koyuki Filmography
| 2025 | Their Marriage (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2025 | Dr. Ashura (TV Series) · as Naomi Rikudo |
| 2024 | SKY Castle (JP) (TV Series) |
| 2023 | Sanctuary (2023) (TV Series) · as Hana |
| 2022 | A Mother's Touch · as Reiko Fukushima |
| 2020 | Today's Nekomura (TV Series) · as Inugami Saeko |
| 2020 | Tetsu no Hone (2020) (TV Series) |
| 2019 | Top League (TV Series) · as Miki Haibara |
| 2019 | The Naked Director (TV Series) · as Kayo |
| 2019 | Trace (TV Series) · as Ritsuko Kaizuka |
| 2017 | Flat Broke Mom (TV Series) · as Yuzuko Nanakusa |
| 2016 | Gold Woman · as Tamaki Yoshizawa |
| 2016 | Fragile (TV Series) · as Madoka Hosoki |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | The Long Goodbye (TV Series) · as Aiko Kamiido |
| 2013 | Onna Nobunaga (TV Series) |
| 2012 | Legal High (TV Series) · as 安藤貴和（あんどう きわ）〈35〉 |
| 2012 | Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 · as Hiromi Ishizaki |
| 2011 | The Detective Is in the Bar · as Saori |
| 2010 | Detective Lovesick (TV Series) · as Yumi Hagio |
| 2010 | 女たちは二度遊ぶ (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2009 | It's on Me · as Maya Yamabuki |
| 2009 | Fumo Chitai (TV Series) · as Chisato Akitsu |
| 2009 | Kamui Gaiden · as Sugaru |
| 2009 | Blood: The Last Vampire · as Onigen |
| 2009 | MR. BRAIN (TV Series) |
| 2007 | Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 · as Hiromi Ishizaki |
| 2007 | Kitaro · as Tenko |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | Time Limit Investigator (TV Series) · as Misako Kaminuma |
| 2005 | Always: Sunset on Third Street · as Hiromi Ishizaki |
| 2005 | Engine (TV Series) · as Tomomi Mizukoshi |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | Warau Iemon · as O-Iwa (tamiya Iwa) |
| 2004 | The Way We Live (TV Series) · as Yura Kitajima |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai · as Taka |
| 2003 | Spy Sorge · as Yoshiko Yamazaki |
| 2003 | You're My Pet (TV Series) · as 巌谷スミレ |
| 2002 | Alive · as Asuka Saegusa |
| 2002 | Searchin' for My Polestar (TV Series) · as Mifuyu Sawamura |
| 2002 | Laundry · as Mizue |
| 2001 | Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop (TV Series) · as Momoko Izuka |
| 2001 | Koi Ga Shitai x3 (TV Series) · as Kuroki Reiko |
| 2001 | My Husband (TV Series) · as Chizuru Toyama（遠山 千鶴） |
| 2001 | Pulse · as Harue Karasawa |
| 2000 | Love Complex (TV Series) · as Kiiko Ninagawa |
| 2000 | Ikebukuro West Gate Park (TV Series) · as Kana Matsui |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | Beautiful Life (TV Series) · as Satsuki Nakajima |
| 1998 | Tabuloido (TV Series) |
| 1998 | Shomuni (TV Series) |
| 2012 | Iwagô Mitsuaki no Sekai Neko Aruki (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2008 | VS Arashi (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | Bokura no jidai (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | SMAP×SMAP (TV Series) · as Self |