2008 Calendar

This calendar has 6 of the biggest new Japanese actresses in 2007 (in my opinion): Ayase Haruka, Maki Horikita, Yu Aoi, Saki Aibu, Ueno Juri, and Mao Inoue. Too bad I don’t know where to buy it…

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All about Lily Chou [J-drama] (Yu Aoi)

All About Lily Chou-Chou (リリイ・シュシュのすべて Rirī Shushu no Subete) is a 2001 Japanese film written and directed by Shunji Iwai. The film portrays the rough lives of high school children in Japan.

Cast

  • Shugo Oshinari as Shusuke Hoshino (星野修介 Hoshino Shusuke).
  • Hayato Ichihara as Yuichi Hasumi (蓮見雄一 Hasumi Yūichi), Hoshino’s former friend.
  • Ayumi Ito as Yoko Kuno (久野陽子 Kuno Yōko), a classmate and love interest of Yuchi’s.
  • Yû Aoi as Shiori Tsuda (津田詩織 Tsuda Shiori), a classmate of Yuichi.
  • Yuki Ito as Kamino, one of the boys in the blue school uniforms at the train station when Kuno is introduced.
  • Izumi Inamori as Izumi Hoshino (星野いずみ Hoshino Izumi), Hoshino’s mother.
  • Salyu as Lily Chou-Chou, the enigmatic and ethereal singer that Yuichi, Tsuda and others in the film are fans of.

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Honey and Clover (J-Movie) (Aoi Yu)

Movie : Honey and Clover / Hachimitsu to Clover / ハチミツとクローバー
Year : 2006
Country : Japan
Director : Masahiro Takada
Starring: Sho Sakurai (Takemoto), Ryo Kase (Mayama), Yusuke Iseya (Morita), Megumi Seki (Yamada), Yuu Aoi (Hagu))
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Hula girls (J-Movie) (Yu Aoi, Yasuko Matsuyuki)

  • Director: Lee Sang-Il
  • Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yu Aoi
  • Synopsis

    It is 1965 and in Japan, the country has started to shift from coal to oil. One by one the old mining towns begin their long slow decline. But for one small town way up north, its leaders and mining company officials have come up with an idea to develop Japan’s first Hawaiian Village. And what’s a Hawaiian Village without a troupe of Hula dancers? The only problem is, no one knows how to do the dance, or even knows what the Hula is! In this hilariously touching comedy, the skepticism and conservatism of the locals is gradually overcome as their daughters fall under the spell of one talented and determined dance instructor from the big city of Tokyo.

    Based on a true story, HULA GIRLS is a heartwarming comedy about coal miners’ daughters who took a once-in-a-lifetime chance to escape their monotonous lives, only to become unwitting heroes to their depressed mining town as well as the whole of Japan.

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