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Name
Ayumi Ito

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1980-04-14 (46 years old)

Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2005 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children as Tifa Lockhart (voice)
1996 Swallowtail Butterfly as Ageha
2003 Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 7
2008 Tokyo! as Akemi (segment "Interior Design")
2022 Noise as Chihiro Aoki
2005 Final Fantasy VII: Last Order as Tifa Lockhart (voice)
2004 Hana & Alice as Saori Ikeda
2006 Clay Fear as Zhen Zi
2008 The Blue Bird as Ms. Shimazaki
2001 All About Lily Chou-Chou as Yōko Kuno
2023 Immersion as Ide
2003 Owl as Emiko
1998 Dr. Akagi
1996 円都 YEN TOWN
2011 Gantz: Perfect Answer as Eriko Ayukawa
2010 Bandage as Nobuko Yukari
2009 Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel as Tifa Lockhart (voice)
2004 Mask de 41 as Haruko Kuramochi
2006 Vanished as Chie
2007 Kitokito! as Ai
2013 A Story of Yonosuke as Chiharu Katase
2004 A Day on the Planet as Kate
1999 Sunday's Dream
2003 Farewell, Kuro as Yukiko Igarashi
2014 埋もれる
2006 Check It Out, Yo! as Nagisa Nakamura
2005 Hold Up Down as Kyoko Miyazaki
2005 Curtain Call as Kaori Hashimoto
2009 Be Sure to Share as Yoko Nakagawa
1997 Happy-Go-Lucky as High School Girl
2004 River of First Love as Mika Inoue
2004 The Motive as Ayako Takarai
2007 The Go Master as Kazuko Nakahara
2007 Into the Faraway Sky as Sawako
2007 Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad as Tamami
2010 After the Flowers as Kayo
2010 Solanin as Ai Kotani
2013 Flower of Shanidar as Yurie
2014 Judge! as Kiichiro Ota's Ex-girlfriend
1998 Fishes in August
2006 Crickets as Eiko
2004 Believer as Kaoru Takano
2007 Tokyo Rhapsody
2022 Dr. Coto's Clinic as Rika Ando
2013 Penance as Mayu Murakami
2010 Gantz as Eriko Ayukawa
1999 Amateur Singing Contest
2014 Pandora: Eternal life as Megumi Tashiro
2012 Soup as Mika Shibuya
2017 Sekigahara as Shirohebi
2017 Hirugao as Noriko Kitano
2018 Chief — Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu as Izumoto Noriko
2004 Last Quarter as Sayaka Kamijo
2013 With All Our Might as Tamiko Sakamoto
1993 Samurai Kids as Chizuko Kusubayashi
2012 The Room as Yumi
1998 Sada as Maid
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema as Yoshiko Kawashima
2019 Cheer Boys!! as Takagi Satsuki
2021 People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan as Ishika
2022 Story Game as Michiko
2014 Dance! Dance! Dance! as Yukino
2002 All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"
2025 White Flowers and Fruits
2026 A Place Called Home
2026 Chaser Game W: A Match Made in Heaven
2026 How to Generate a Perfect Crime
2025 The Woman Who Repeats

1999 Lipstick ( 12 episodes ) as Eriko Matsuda
2012 Penance ( 1 episode ) as Mayu Murakami
2018 I Prefer Tomorrow's You ( 7 episodes ) as Satokawa Akane
2023 Last Man: The Blind Profiler ( 1 episode )
2012 Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance ( 6 episodes ) as Tachi Yoshino
2014 Shinigami-kun ( 1 episode )
2012 Wonderful Single Life ( 11 episodes ) as Mizuki Kono
2019 Radiation House ( 3 episodes ) as Shizuku Ikeda
1999 Emergency Room 24 Hours ( 2 episodes )
2019 Poison Daughter, Holy Mother ( 6 episodes )
2014 Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon ( 11 episodes ) as Noriko Kitano
2017 Cecile's Plot ( 9 episodes ) as Eri Okita
2020 ７０才、初めて産みました～セブンティウイザン。 ( 8 episodes ) as 黄桜豊子
2019 La Grande Maison Tokyo ( 1 episode )
2019 Sherlock: Untold Stories ( 1 episode ) as Rieko Ichikawa
2023 Yu Yu Hakusho ( 2 episodes ) as Atsuko Urameshi
2011 Ohisama ( 0 episode ) as Natsuko Takahashi
2024 Hakubo no Chronicle ( 12 episodes ) as Azechi Kaoruko
2022 Tokyo Vice ( 15 episodes ) as Misaki
2019 Stolen Face ( 5 episodes ) as Chiharu
2015 Konkatsu Deka ( 12 episodes ) as Hanada Yoneko
2016 Never Let Me Go ( 10 episodes ) as Horie Tatsuko
2024 The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary ( 10 episodes )
2015 Sono otoko, ishiki takai kei ( 8 episodes ) as Haruko Tsubokura
2016 Natsuko Kira ( 10 episodes ) as Miyuki Sakabe
2021 20th year reunion ( 13 episodes ) as self
2012 O-PARTS〜オーパーツ〜 ( 4 episodes )
2018 The Makioka Sisters ( 4 episodes ) as Makioka Yukiko
2013 太陽の罠 ( 4 episodes ) as 하세가와 아오이
2024 Beyond Goodbye ( 8 episodes ) as Midori Tateishi
2009 Midnight Diner ( 1 episode ) as Ikumi
2025 Romantics Anonymous ( 8 episodes ) as Motomi Kawamura
2019 The House on the Slope ( 6 episodes ) as Mutsumi Haga

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