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Youki Kudoh

Japanese actress and singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ455896 ↗
Source-derived summary

Youki Kudoh (工藤 夕貴, Kudō Yūki; born 17 January 1971) is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best newcomer at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for The Crazy Family. She also won the awards for best actress at the 16th Hochi Film Award and at the 1992 Blue Ribbon Award for War and Youth. Additionally, Kudoh has been nominated three times for Best Actress, in the 5th independent Spirit Award for Mystery Train, in the 15th Japanese Academy Prize for War and Youth, and in the 4th Golden Satellite Award for Snow Falling on Cedars.

Filmography

Films

Television

Stage productions

Kiki's Delivery Service (as Kiki, 1993)

Discography

Singles

Yasei Jidai (野生時代) (1984) Oricon Singles Chart number 39

Heroine (ヒロイン) (1985)

Tokimeki Fall In You (ときめきFALL IN YOU) (1985)

Cinderella Liberty Mo Hecchara (シンデレラ・リバティもへっちゃら) (1985)

Shiawase Carnival (し・あ・わ・せカーニバル) (1986)

Hohoemu Anata Ni Aitai (微笑むあなたに会いたい) (1986) Oricon number 50

Girlfriend (ガールフレンド) (1986)

Kimi No Heart Ni Touch (君のハートにタッチ) (1987)

Chotto Dake Kuzushitai (ちょっとだけくずしたい) (1989)

Glass No Fune: Mon Mec A Moi (硝子の舟〜mon mec a moi〜) (1989)

Yume Ga Kanau (夢が叶う) (1990)

Shōwa (昭和) (1991)

Sayonara Samba (さよならサンバ) (1993)

Tabidachi No Uta (旅立ちの唄) (1993)

Omoide Wa Emerald (想い出はエメラルド) (1994)

Maybe Tonight (1995)

Tosan Mitemasuka (父さん見てますか) (2023) Oricon number 46

References

External links

Youki Kudoh's homepage (in Japanese)

Youki Kudoh at IMDb

TIME Asia – Young Japan: Who Killed Our Culture?

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Youki Kudoh” as japanese actress and singer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1992, 1993, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-01-17. The account is most persuasive where Youki, Kudoh and Japanese can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as japanese actress and singer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q455896. VIAF identifies the subject as 115921787. The Library of Congress control number is no2001040651. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1992, 1993 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Youki Kudoh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.