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Yu Aoi has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Rurouni Kenshin: The Final.
Gemini Man
2019
Science Fiction · Action
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Netflix · Included
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Netflix · Included
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Netflix · Included
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Netflix · Included
Tokyo Ghoul
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Crunchyroll · Included
All About Lily Chou-Chou
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
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.
Dir. Keishi Otomo · With Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Munetaka Aoki
Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Dir. Keishi Otomo · With Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Munetaka Aoki
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.
Dir. Keishi Otomo · With Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Mackenyu
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
Dir. Keishi Otomo · With Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Koji Kikkawa
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.
Dir. Kentaro Hagiwara · With Masataka Kubota, Yoshiko Sengen, Nobuyuki Suzuki
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
Dir. Shunji Iwai · With Hayato Ichihara, Shugo Oshinari, Yu Aoi
A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to participate he must overcome the mafia, the government and even love.
Dir. Takeshi Koike · With Takuya Kimura, Yu Aoi, Tadanobu Asano
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
Dir. Michael Arias · With Kazunari Ninomiya, Yūsuke Iseya, Yu Aoi
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
Dir. Shunji Iwai · With Anne Suzuki, Yu Aoi, Kaku Tomohiro
After transferring to Ishinomori Middle School, Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa overhears her classmates discussing a strange rumor. The previous occupant of her seat, a nondescript "Judas," is missing and presumed murdered. Amidst dealing with her mother's undesired meddling in her affairs and warding off her classmates' bullying, the troubled Alice starts to investigate the mystery surrounding Judas' disappearance. The trail of clues leads her to the house of her next-door neighbor, the quirky and reclusive Hana Arai.
Dir. Shunji Iwai · With Yu Aoi, Anne Suzuki, Ryo Katsuji
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.
Dir. Hiroyasu Ishida · With Kana Kita, Rie Kugimiya, Yu Aoi
It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.
Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa · With Yu Aoi, Issey Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide
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.
Dir. Ayumu Watanabe · With Mana Ashida, Hiiro Ishibashi, Seishu Uragami
Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.
Dir. Shinji Aramaki · With Shun Oguri, Haruma Miura, Yu Aoi
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