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Koyuki
Known for: ActingKoyuki 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.
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as Taka 
Legal High
as Kiwa Ando 
Sanctuary
as Hana 
Wasted Land
as Chisato Akitsu 
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
as Kana Matsui 
Pulse
as Harue Karasawa 
Today's Nekomura
as Inugami Saeko 
Engine
as Tomomi Mizukoshi 
Trace ~ Men of the science school ~
as Ritsuko Kaizuka 
Blood: The Last Vampire
as Onigen 
The Light We Cast
as Hoshino Momoka 
We Are Worse at Love Than Pandas
as Mirei Fujisaki 
Crossroad
as Machi Nomiya 
Fragile
as Madoka Hosoki 
The Long Goodbye
as Aiko Kamiido 
Searchin' for My Polestar
as Mifuyu Sawamura 
The Way We Live
as Yura Kitajima 
Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop
as Momoko Izuka 
Love Complex
as Kiiko Ninagawa 
Always - Sunset on Third Street
as Hiromi Ishizaki 
Flat Broke Mom
as Yuzuko Nanakusa 
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
as Hiromi Ishizaki 
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
as Hiromi Ishizaki 
Kamui
as Sugaru 
Alive
as Asuka Saegusa