Yuu Kashii

Acting

Yuu Kashii

Born

1987-02-16 (39)

Place of birth

Kanagawa, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Yuu Kashii got her start in the entertainment business as a model for the Japanese teen magazine mc Sister back in 2001. Her first acting role was in the movie adaptation of Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean in which she played the title character in the film.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 5 titles

SPEC: Close~Incarnation poster
7.3

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".

SPEC: Close~Incarnation

2013

SPEC: Close Reincarnation poster
7.2

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".

SPEC: Close Reincarnation

2013

Box! poster
7.0

A shy high school student meets his childhood friend, who moved away years earlier, and who encourages him to join their school's boxing club.

Box!

2010

What a Wonderful Life!! poster
NR

Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train ride back to his hometown. He arrives at his parents home, but nobody is home. He looks for the house key under a potted plant but can't find the key. He starts to thinks back to his childhood days in his parents home. Shuichi grew up with his younger brother, older sister, father who ran a shoe making business out of their garage and mother. Shuichi grew up with a crush on an older woman who lived next door and he loved to make piggy banks out of empty whiskey bottles. One day on a school picnic, Shuichi's classmates grabbed a lunchbox from a fellow student and eventually gave the lunch box to Shuichi. All the other students chanted "throw it away," while Shuichi's former friend looked on in despair.

What a Wonderful Life!!

2010

Adult Drop poster
7.5

Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly why, but Ann becomes absent from school frequently. One day, during their summer vacation, Yoshi hears that Ann has dropped out of school.

Adult Drop

2014

2000s · 15 titles

Death Note poster
7.1

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

Death Note

2006

Linda Linda Linda poster
7.6

Only three days before the school festival, a newly formed high school band rushes to put together a set for their big show — including a hit single by '80s by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts.

Linda Linda Linda

2005

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean poster
6.3

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

2005

Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black poster
7.3

Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.

Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black

2007

Ten Nights of Dreams poster
6.3

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.

Ten Nights of Dreams

2007

Yellow Tears poster
5.0

The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.

Yellow Tears

2007

Hold Up Down poster
7.0

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, including the guys from boy band V6.

Hold Up Down

2005

Until the Lights Come Back poster
6.4

A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

Until the Lights Come Back

2005

252: Signal of Life poster
6.0

At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety. Written by Nathan Southern

252: Signal of Life

2008

Making of Death Note poster
NR

Documentary on the first live action Death Note film.

Making of Death Note

2009

The Pavillion Salamandre poster
4.0

Four beautiful sisters are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and national treasure. Rumors spread that Kinjiro is an impostor, so a genius x-ray technician is sent to run some tests.

The Pavillion Salamandre

2006

Starlit High Noon poster
5.8

Lian Son is a Taiwanese assassin hiding in Okinawa. Yukiko works at a lunch box shop, but she has a painful past. Saya works at a public swimming pool, but is bored with her life. The solitary lives of these three people slowly intersect with each other under the bright sunshine of Okinawa.

Starlit High Noon

2006

Sanpei the Fisher Boy poster
4.0

Sanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love fishing and are masters at it. His sister moved to Tokyo when their father died and blames it on the fishing. She thinks it's just a stupid play. Gyoshin, a bass professional fisher who lives and competes in America is in a slump and comes to the small village to try to find the joy of fishing again. Together, they all go to find the legendary big char of Yonakidani (The Crying Valley of The Night), which Sanpei's father once saw, but could never catch, before he died.

Sanpei the Fisher Boy

2009

Midnight March poster
NR

Yokoyama Kenji, the president of an event company that organizes matchmaking parties, meets Mita Soichiro (Shunsuke Kubozuka) who works for a first-class trading company. The two plan to rob an art dealer, Kurokawa Haruo, of a large amount of money, but are discovered by his daughter, Kurokawa Chie. After that, the two meet Chie again, and are invited to join in her in a scheme to steal 1 billion yen.

Midnight March

2007

〜A calendar to heaven〜 poster
NR

What would you do on the last day of your life? A nurse knows she's dying of cancer, but she hides the truth in order to support the patients that depend on her.

〜A calendar to heaven〜

2005

Series credits

Galileo poster
8.2

Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases.

Galileo

2007

Sins of Kujo poster
7.6

From thugs to yakuza, Taiza Kujo wields the law to defend society's worst. Fellow lawyer, Karasuma doubts his ethics but joins him in facing the abyss.

Sins of Kujo

2026

Yips poster
6.0

A detective drama produced by Fuji TV.

Yips

2024

Water Boys poster
7.2

Water Boys is a Japanese television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2003. There is a fairly large cast due to the amount of members in each team. There were 32 swimmers in this drama who were carefully chosen to fit their roles, but none of them had ever done synchronized swimming before.

Water Boys

2003

My Boss, My Hero poster
8.0

Makio Sakaki, a 27-year-old aiming to become his father's successor. To prove his worth, he must pass high school and overcome various challenges including friendship, righteousness, and potential love.

My Boss, My Hero

2006

Soumatou Kabushikigaisha poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Soumatou Kabushikigaisha

2012

The Knife and the Sword poster
6.4

French chef Ken travels back in time to Sengoku period. Due to traveling through the time slip, Ken has lost his memory, but still retains his knowledge on fine cuisine. Thanks to his excellence in cuisine, Ken eventually becomes the chef to powerful daimyo Nobunaga Oda.

The Knife and the Sword

2013

Kurokouchi poster
4.5

Detective Keita Kurokouchi (Tomoya Nagase) continues to extort money from politicians whom Keita Kurokouchi has information on. By using his information he is able to crack unsolved cases. Rookie Detective Mayo Seike (Ayame Gouriki) is excellent with her job and also a bit naive. She conducts an internal investigation on Detective Keita Kurokouchi, but they become partners and work on cases together..

Kurokouchi

2013

What Do You Really Do About Love? poster
8.0

Sakurazawa Jun is 27 years old and excels in her job, is fashionable, has many hobbies and lives a very fulfilled life. Her life is driven by her primary motto "love is just a waste of time!" and she has no experience in romantic relationships or with men. Before her appears Nagamine Shuma, an incredibly handsome chef in training who knows exactly what women want to hear and feel. He's someone who lives in the moment, lets people come and go, is cool and not serious about love. For some reason, Shuma is intrigued by Jun and decides to approach her...

What Do You Really Do About Love?

2022

Innocent Love poster
7.5

An arson took it all away from Akiyama Kanon seven years ago. Her parents died in that fire, her brother was arrested as the prime suspect and her carefree life disappeared from that instant. She was shunned by the town as the sister of a murderer, yet she believes in her brother's innocence and often pays him visits with words of encouragement. As life gets harder when nobody is willing to give her a job, Kanon decides to try her luck in the city and there she meets the man of her destiny...

Innocent Love

2008

Matrilineal Family poster
NR

A generations old family business is sent into turmoil when the sudden death of the head of the family opens the door to a fierce struggle between his three powerful and privileged daughters and the young mistress of modest means pregnant with his child.

Matrilineal Family

2005

Tokyo Tower poster
8.3

A story about a young man named Masaya, whose lifelong dream is to go build a life in Tokyo. Masaya thinks his life in his hometown is uncool. A few years later, he manages to move to Tokyo but not without any consequences. In Tokyo, he learns the hard way about the meaning of life, survival, love, insecurities, desperation and hope. He also learns the struggles of living in a big city and trying to fix his relationship with his parents, especially his mom.

Tokyo Tower

2007

Kiken na Kankei poster
8.7

A love suspense drama where lies become the truth. Kaede Itsuki, a temp employee at Kamishima Corporation, has a fateful encounter with Shuji Kimoto, a recent mid-career hire at the same corporation. Their identities are however not what they may seem on the surface and thus begins a game of deception.

Kiken na Kankei

2013

Late Blooming Sunflower My Life Renewed poster
7.8

"Late blooming Sunflower -My life renewed-" is a story of 7 young adults living their ordinary days near the Shimanto river of Kochi prefecture, renowned as the last of the crystal clear streams. Somewhat nostalgic, somewhat new, they hold on to their dreams and insecurities. It's a true-to-life portrayal of the days in young adulthood.

Late Blooming Sunflower My Life Renewed

2012

Yukan Club poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Yukan Club

2007

Mori no Asagao poster
10.0

New prison officer Naoki Oikawa is assigned to the death-row section. When he observes the death row inmate's fear of their impending executions (they can be carried out without forewarning), he thinks about the death penalty system. Naoki Oikawa then encounters new death row inmate Mitsuru Watase. Mitsuru Watase is on death-row for killing a man who attacked his parents. Naoki and Mitsuru were also on the same baseball team as children.

Mori no Asagao

2010

Lessons for a Perfect Detective Story poster
6.5

Based on the acclaimed short story series by popular writer Keigo Higashino, this stylish drama mixes comedy with old-fashioned detective tricks and crime solving.

Lessons for a Perfect Detective Story

2009

Water Boys 2005 Summer poster
NR

Water Boys 2005 Natsu is a two-part Japanese drama series that aired in Japan on Fuji Television on August 19 and 20 2005. This is the third and final season of the series Water Boys, as its alternate title suggests, Water Boys Finale.

Water Boys 2005 Summer

2005

Ketsuekigata-betsu Onna ga Kekkon suru Hoho poster
NR

"Ketsuekigata-betsu Onna ga Kekkon suru Hoho" is a 4 part special, each episode dealing with a woman of a different blood type. Episode 1 (A-type) - Rosa Kato plays an A-type woman, and Naoki Okubo plays an O-type man. They fall in love at their workplace. Episode 2 (B-type) - Yumiko Shaku plays a a popular scriptwriter with B-type blood who has an affair with TV props man Hiroyuki Miyasaku, who's an AB. Episode 3 (O-type) - Yu Kashii plays a furniture store clerk with O-type blood who has to take care of a visiting designer from Taiwan with A-type blood played by Wilson Chen. Episode 4 (AB-type) - Asami Mizukawa plays an engineering student with AB-type blood who gets a lesson in love from associate professor Shigeru Joshima.

Ketsuekigata-betsu Onna ga Kekkon suru Hoho

2009

とっても甘いの~C'EST TRES DOUX~ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

とっても甘いの~C'EST TRES DOUX~

2019

危険な関係 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

危険な関係

2019