Ayumi Ito
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.87 |
| Birthday | 1980-04-14 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Ayumi Itô, 伊藤步, |
2005
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
7.148/1145
Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people sl...
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
1996
Swallowtail Butterfly
7.429/85
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
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Swallowtail Butterfly
2003
Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 7
0/0
A collection of psychic images received by general posts. Fear multiplies! Earth-bound spirits, vengeful spirits, floating spirits, guardian spirits ....
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Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 7
2008
Tokyo!
6.914/228
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....
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Tokyo!
2022
Noise
5.8/10
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsu...
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Noise
2005
Final Fantasy VII: Last Order
6.2/64
In the events of Last Order, taking place five years before the beginning of Final Fantasy VII itself, Sephiroth was ordered to inspect the Mako React...
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2004
Hana and Alice
7/110
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
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Hana and Alice
2006
Clay Fear
0/0
Pottery factory owner Ming Fu (Ng Kai Wah) is haunted by visions of the blazing death of his business partner in a suspicious fire. Widowed, Ming is...
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Clay Fear
2008
The Blue Bird
5.4/8
Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of th...
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The Blue Bird
2001
All About Lily Chou-Chou
7.3/229
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationsh...
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2023
Immersion
5.9/11
Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.
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Immersion
2003
Owl
7/5
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to st...
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Owl
1998
Dr. Akagi
6.6/21
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
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Dr. Akagi
1996
円都 YEN TOWN
0/0
Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly
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2011
Gantz: Perfect Answer
6.688/208
Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.
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2010
Bandage
6/16
Set in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high school, Asako, who goes to a concert and meets Natsu, vocal...
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2009
Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
5.6/31
It's been four years since Meteor fell on Midgar. Denzel meets Reeve at an outskirts coffee shop about joining the World Regenesis Organization. Upon...
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2004
Mask de 41
0/0
Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao must succeed to save his...
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Mask de 41
2006
Vanished
5.6/5
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon di...
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Vanished
2007
Kitokito!
0/0
Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.
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Kitokito!
2013
A Story of Yonosuke
7.242/60
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ord...
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A Story of Yonosuke
2004
A Day on the Planet
5.8/8
Seven friends gather at a party in Kyoto to celebrate Masamichi's entry to graduate school. Maki & her boyfriend Nakazawa join the party and get d...
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A Day on the Planet
2005
Sunday's Dream
0/0
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy...
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Sunday's Dream
2003
Farewell, Kuro
6.75/4
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the...
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Farewell, Kuro
2014
埋もれる
0/0
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埋もれる
2006
Check It Out, Yo!
5.2/4
Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing t...
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2005
Hold Up Down
6.9/7
A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, inclu...
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Hold Up Down
2005
Curtain Call
0/0
Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a...
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Curtain Call
2009
Be Sure to Share
6.5/12
Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before i...
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Be Sure to Share
1997
Happy Go Lucky
7.5/6
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns th...
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Happy Go Lucky
2004
River of First Love
6.7/6
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak consti...
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River of First Love
2004
The Motive
6.4/8
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens...
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The Motive
2007
The Go Master
6.3/11
The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the t...
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The Go Master
2007
Into the Faraway Sky
7/1
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably p...
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Into the Faraway Sky
2007
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
6.9/14
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn...
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2010
After the Flowers
7.2/9
Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sparks an attraction with Ito. Ito challenges Magosh...
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After the Flowers
2010
Solanin
7/23
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Taneda is permanently crashing at her apartment becau...
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Solanin
2013
Flower of Shanidar
5.5/4
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is...
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Flower of Shanidar
2014
Judge!
7.1/19
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a jud...
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1998
Fishes in August
0/0
A refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity
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Fishes in August
2006
Crickets
7/2
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she ta...
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Crickets
2004
Believer
0/0
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Believer
2007
Tokyo Rhapsody
0/0
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the mu...
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Tokyo Rhapsody
2022
Dr. Coto's Clinic
7.3/3
In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the yo...
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2013
Penance
7.257/35
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she wa...
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Penance
2010
Gantz
6.576/303
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and...
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Gantz
1999
Amateur Singing Contest
5/4
Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and...
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Amateur Singing Contest
2014
Pandora: Eternal life
7/1
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Pandora: Eternal life
2012
Soup
7/1
Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. On...
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Soup
2017
Sekigahara
6.915/41
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the...
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Sekigahara
2017
Hirugao
5.3/28
Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet a...
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Hirugao
2018
Chief - Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu
6/1
ogane Takichi, the CEO of a construction company, is shot dead in the street in Nishi Shinjuku in Tokyo. The only eyewitness, Odagiri Naoto, refuses t...
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Chief - Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu
2004
Last Quarter
6.2/8
Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently comm...
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Last Quarter
2013
With All Our Might
10/1
Tamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo (Hazuki Inoue). Tamiko married her deceased friend Mar...
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With All Our Might
1993
Samurai Kids
6/1
A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.
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Samurai Kids
2012
The Room
3.8/4
Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over...
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The Room
1998
Sada
6.8/14
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
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Sada
2020
Labyrinth of Cinema
6.6/21
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese wa...
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Labyrinth of Cinema
2019
Cheer Boys!!
6.4/7
Haruki Bando decides to quit his family's sport of judo after a shoulder injury and start a new project with his childhood friend Kazuma. Together the...
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Cheer Boys!!
2021
People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
6.5/43
Since the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but everything is about to change. News reaches them that one...
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People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
2022
Story Game
6.2/6
Who can tell the scariest story? Three friends try to out wit each other on a camping trip in Hawaii. But only one can win The Story Game.
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Story Game
2014
Dance! Dance! Dance!
0/0
The movie is set in Japan and tells the story of Furu, a young aspiring musician, who is dreaming of a getaway out of his small coastal town in Northe...
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Dance! Dance! Dance!
2002
All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"
6.3/3
The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS
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