Age: 46
female
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.
A stylish hyperviolent neo-noir martial arts action film with a cyberpunk aesthetic. Nonstop continuous-take action sequences. A gangster thriller where Katana rips through the Yakuza underworld of Tokyo. Tatsu Yamashiro becomes the deadly wielder of Soultaker—a cursed Muramasa-forged katana that traps every soul it slays and whispers wicked demands into her mind. Once a warrior guided by honor, she descends into madness as the blade’s corruption seeps into her bones, turning her from heroic samurai into a merciless and powerful demonic Oni entity. Each soul her sword devours empowers its hold. But Soultaker’s hunger is insidious: as it consumes more spirits, it drives Katana to massacre her own allies. By the end, she is no avenger, but a horror made flesh—fully possessed by evil, Soultaker’s ultimate weapon, feared across the DC universe as a powerful Oni Ronin.
