Yūrei Yanagi

Japanese actor and tarento (born 1963)

Yūrei Yanagi (柳憂怜 or 柳ユーレイ, Yanagi Yūrei, born 8 April 1963) is a Japanese actor and tarento. He was born in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.^[1]^[2] Yanagi was originally a member of Takeshi Kitano's gundan. In 1990 he continued to work with Takeshi for the film Boiling Point. Afterwards, he appeared in over eight more films before meeting up with Takeshi again for the 1997 film Hana-bi.^[3] His most recent roles have been in horror films such as Ring, Ju-on and Ju-on 2.

He is married to actress, novelist, and essayist Atsuko Kawada. He is also credited as Masahiko Ono or Yuurei Yanagi.

Partial filmography

Boiling Point (1990) as Masaki
Don't Look Up (1996) as Toshio Murai
Hana-bi (1997) as Chef No. 1
Ring (1998) as AD Okazaki
Ring 2 (1999) as AD Okazaki
Ju-on (2000) as Shunsuke Kobayashi
Carved (2007) as Detective Kubo
L: Change the World (2008)
The Slit-Mouthed Woman 0: The Beginning (2008)
Gothic & Lolita Psycho (2010) as Jiro
Helldriver (2010) as Taku
Ultraman X (2015) as Takashi Ozora
Little Nights, Little Love (2019)
Missing (2024)^[4]

Notes

^ "柳憂怜 YUREI YANAGI". dorama.info/. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
^ 柳憂怜( 出演/監督/脚本/撮影 ) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
^ 柳　憂怜［やなぎゆうれい］ (in Japanese). www.office-kitano.co.jp. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
^ "ミッシング". eiga.com. Retrieved 1 December 2023.