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Yui Aragaki

Yui Aragaki

Known For Acting
Birthday Jun 11, 1988 (37)
Birthplace Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Popularity 3 (history)
Updated Aug 20, 2025
Entry Date Jul 20, 2024
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Yui Aragaki is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyū and occasional radio show host. She is most well-known for her role in the 2007 movie "Koizora" (also known as "Sky of Love") which was a box office hit. Yui Aragaki was born in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture on June 11, 1988, and has two olde ... r sisters. After seeing an audition notice for the junior fashion magazine Nicola (ニコラ Nikora), she applied for it and won the Grand Prix award for the audition. In 2001, at the age of 13, she began her Nicola modelling career and was very well received as a Nicola model, having set a record for appearing on cover for 15 times. A fellow Nicola model Ayako Enomoto gave her the popular nickname "Gakki." At the age of 15, Aragaki moved to Tokyo and enrolled in Horikoshi High School, a private high school popular for being attended by many Japanese celebrities. In 2004, she decided to put her Nicola career on hold and expand her career path into gravure and acting, and she also appeared in variety shows and commercials, with her Pocky commercials being the most popular. A year later, she officially graduated from Nicola. Even so, she still appears in the magazine occasionally. In 2005, Aragaki took up a role in the TBS drama, Dragon Sakura, starring alongside Japanese idols like Tomohisa Yamashita and Masami Nagasawa. This marked a breakthrough in her acting career. Since then, she has been cast in many other dramas, like My Boss, My Hero and Gal Circle. She also starred in the 2007 tragic love story movie hit Koizora, for which she won her first award, the Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Newcomer. Currently, she has 5 newcomer awards. Aragaki won the Film prize at the 45th Golden Arrow Awards in 2008. Her tremendous number of movie shoots as well as the preparation for her debut album resulted in her suffering from work-related stress in 2007. Outside acting she also released her first album, Sora, and the single "Heavenly Days", a song from Koizora. "Memories", the theme song for Tokyo Serendipity, was included in her debut album. She also performed at Budokan. She was also the co-hosts for popular radio program Girls Locks in 2010-2012.

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The Colors Within

The Colors Within

2024

as Sister Hiyoko (voice)

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

The 13 Lords of the Shogun

as Yae

Episodes: 48

First Aired: Jan 09, 2022

Digimon Data Squad

as Yoshino Fujieda (voice)

Episodes: 48

First Aired: Apr 02, 2006

Code Blue

as Megumi Shiraishi

Episodes: 32

First Aired: Jul 03, 2008

Legal High

as 黛真知子

Episodes: 21

First Aired: Apr 17, 2012

Sh15uya

as Ema

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Jan 10, 2005

Smile

as Mishima Hana

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Apr 17, 2009

Dragon Sakura

as Yoshino Kosaka

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Jul 08, 2005

Gal Circle

as Nagisa

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Apr 15, 2006

Public Affairs Office in the Sky

as Rika Inaba

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Apr 14, 2013

The Full Throttle Girl

as Ayukawa Wakaba

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Jul 11, 2011

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

as Moriyama Mikuri

Episodes: 11

First Aired: Oct 11, 2016

The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami

as Kyoko Okitegami

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Oct 10, 2015

Weakest Beast

as Akira Shinkai

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Oct 10, 2018

S -The Last Policeman

as Iruma Hayashi

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Jan 12, 2014

Seven Days of a Daddy and a Daughter

as Kawahara Koume

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Jul 01, 2007

Daddy Is My Classmate

as Sachiko Obika

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Aug 02, 2020

Fence

as Shiroma Kaoru

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Mar 19, 2023

Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero

as Seiko Hayata

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Apr 10, 2023

Ties: A Miraculous Colt

as Masako Matsushita

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Mar 23, 2017

We Married as a Job: New Year's Special

Episodes: 11

First Aired: May 19, 2020

My Boss, My Hero

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Jul 08, 2006

Futari no Distance

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Aug 15, 2021

生命大躍進

Episodes: 3

First Aired: May 10, 2015

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