Best Yu Aoi movies

Yu Aoi as: Mina
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2011
A vampire, who works as a teacher, searches for suicidal female students and seduces them prior to sucking their blood.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best John Witherspoon movies?

Original Title: 蟲師
Yu Aoi as: Tanyu
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Release: 2007
Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi and are oblivious to their existence, but there are a few who possess the ability to see and interact with Mushi. One such person is Ginko who travels from place to place to research Mushi and aid people suffering from problems caused by them.

Original Title: キャプテンハーロック
Yu Aoi as: Miime (voice)
Genre: Animation, Science Fiction
Release: 2013
Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Chikao Ohtsuka movies?

Original Title: 岸辺の旅
Yu Aoi as: Tomoko
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Release: 2015
Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel. While travelling together, Misuki sees, touches and feels what Yusuke did for those 3 years.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Tadanobu Asano movies?

Original Title: フラガール
Yu Aoi as: Kimiko Tanikawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 2006
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.

Original Title: 花とアリス
Yu Aoi as: Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Release: 2004
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

Original Title: 東京喰種 トーキョーグール
Yu Aoi as: Rize Kamishiro
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2017
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run.

Original Title: TOKYO!
Yu Aoi as: Pizza-Delivery Girl
Genre: Drama
Release: 2008
Tokyo! is an anthology of three short films by Gondry (France), Carax (France) and Bong (Korea), each of whom offers an imaginative and trans-/super- natural glimpse into the Tokyo Megapolis.

Original Title: リリイ・シュシュのすべて
Yu Aoi as: Shiori Tsuda
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 2001
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yuichi Hasumi and Shusuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yuichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Original Title: ペンギン・ハイウェイ
Yu Aoi as: Onē-san
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Release: 2018
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Rie Kugimiya movies?

Original Title: 海獣の子供
Yu Aoi as: Kanako Azumi (voice)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery
Release: 2019
Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Mana Ashida movies?

Original Title: 花とアリス殺人事件
Yu Aoi as: Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa
Genre: Drama, Animation, Comedy
Release: 2015
Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa has just moved to a new house with her recently divorced mother and enrolled at a school where a strange rumor lingers among the students about "Judas," who is said to have been murdered over a year before. She is told that if anybody knows his fate it would be Hana Arai, the recluse in the house next door who has been unable to bring herself to attend class since "Judas" disappeared.

Original Title: 東京家族
Yu Aoi as: Noriko Mamiya
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 2013
In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few departures from Ozu’s masterpiece in order to update the story of ageing couple Shukichi and Tomiko to present day Japan. Once again, the pair decides to leave their quiet lives in the country to pay a visit to their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. Once there, they discover that neither their oldest son, a doctor named Koichi, nor their eldest daughter Shigeko - who runs a beauty parlour - has time for them: both are too busy attending to their everyday concerns. Even the youngest son went his own way. The old couple feel lonely and bewildered in the fast-paced metropolis.

Original Title: レッドライン
Yu Aoi as: Sonoshee JP (voice)
Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction
Release: 2010
The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium. In this race, not only is anything possible, but also anything is allowed. In fact, their adversaries have modified their vehicles to equip them with highly destructive weapons; with such participants, it is hardly surprising that Redline is forbidden by the authorities, who will try anything to halt the proceedings.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Kenyu Horiuchi movies?

Original Title: 鉄コン筋クリート
Yu Aoi as: Shiro (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation
Release: 2006
When mysterious foreign entrepreneurs appear with the intention of tearing down Treasure Town and replacing it with an amusement park, Black and White face their greatest adversaries yet. It is up to the destructive Black to save the fate of the city and up to the gentle White to save Black from his own dark nature. On the street of an unnamed city, literally high-flying urchins Black and White look to protect their turf from invasion from other gangs. While he can be tough in a fight or wielding a weapon, White is an 11-year-old who can't even dress himself. Slightly older, Black is more worldly and treats his buddy with paternal love. Both look on their city as "our town." Also prone to seeing the city as his property is world-weary yakuza leader Suzuki, aka the Rat. Feeling the town has become too placid, Suzuki plots his return, much to the consternation of local police.

Original Title: るろうに剣心
Yu Aoi as: Megumi Takani
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Release: 2012
Former legendary assassin Kenshin Himura has now become a wandering samurai. Offering aid & protecting those in need as atonement for his past deeds. During this time Kenshin Himura comes across and aides Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei). Her father opened the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu, a kendo school located in Tokyo and Kaoru is now an instructor there. Kaoru then invites Kenshin to stay at her dojo. Their relationship develops further, but Kenshin is still haunted by his violent past...
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Emi Takei movies?

Original Title: 斬、
Yu Aoi as: Yu
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2018
In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin spends time in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. To keep his sword skills sharp, he spars daily with a farmer's son. Meanwhile, the nation is in the midst of major unrest with civil war on the horizon. One day, a group of outlaw ronin enters the village.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Rick Fox movies?

Original Title: るろうに剣心 京都大火編
Yu Aoi as: Megumi Takani
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Release: 2014
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Tao Tsuchiya movies?

Original Title: るろうに剣心　伝説の最期編
Yu Aoi as: Megumi Takani
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Release: 2014
Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Ryunosuke Kamiki movies?

Original Title: るろうに剣心 最終章 The Final
Yu Aoi as: Megumi Takani
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Release: 2021
Himura Kenshin is a legendary swordsman who has stopped killing people with his sword. Instead, he uses a dull-edged sword. He tries to live a peaceful life with Kaoru who runs a swordsmanship school in their village. Kenshin's past catches up to him causing the destruction of Akabeko Restaurant, which was Kenshin's favorite place to eat. There, he finds a note with the word 'Jinchuu' on it.