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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 …
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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.
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The Window of Non-REM 2025 New Year
A Mother's Touch
as Reiko Fukushima
Gold Woman
as Tamaki Yoshizawa
Persona Non Grata
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
as Hiromi Ishizaki
Phone Call to the Bar
as Saori
Forget Me Not
Women Play Twice
It's On Me
as Maya Yamabuki
Kamui
as Sugaru
Blood: The Last Vampire
as Onigen
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
as Hiromi Ishizaki
Kitaro
as Tenko
Always - Sunset on Third Street
as Hiromi Ishizaki
Jam Films S
Warau Iemon
as O-Iwa (Tamiya Iwa)
The Last Samurai
as Taka
Alive
as Asuka Saegusa
Spy Sorge
as Yoshiko Yamazaki
Kaleidoscope
as Kaede Katsuragi
Laundry
as Mizue
Pulse
as Harue Karasawa
Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
