The Official Yamada Yu Thread

[Beauty4123]

Name: Yamada Yu (山田優)
Full name: Yamada Yuko (山田優子)
Birthdate: July 5th, 1984
Birthplace: Okinawa-shi, Okinawa, Japan
Blood type: O
Height: 169cm
Weight: 47kg
Bust: 85cm
Waist: 60cm
Hips: 84cm
Shoe size: 26.5cm

Yamada graduated from Okinawa Actor's School. In 1999, while working as a model for the Japanese fashion magazine CanCam under an exclusive contract, she also worked as a singer in the group y'z factory (formed with two other students of the Okinawa Actor's School) and released a total of six singles and one album, but in 2002 the group disbanded.

Following the group's break up, Yamada moved to television, making her acting debut in the 2001 drama series Kabachitare! which led to many other drama roles such as in Kange! Danjiki Goikkosama, and Orange Days as well as hosting jobs for NTV’s Minna no Terebi and Fuji TV’s F1 Grand Prix. She has also starred in a few films acting alongside many prominent young stars including, Ryuhei Matsuda, Hiroki Narimiya and Shugo Oshinari.

Yamada has also appeared in advertisements for Nissin instant foods, Ezaki Glico, Vodafone cellular phones, Kanebo line of cosmetics, Canon and most recently Fujitsu Ten navigation systems.

In 2006 Yamada debuted as a solo artist with the single "REAL YOU" which was used as the theme song for the movie Akihabara@DEEP (starring Yamada herself) and peaked at #10 on the Oricon Charts.

Singles:

REAL YOU

Released: September 20, 2006
Oricon Top 100 Weekly Peak: #10
Copies Sold: 23,000

EYES ON ME

Released: March 7, 2007
Oricon Top 100 Weekly Peak: #30
Copies Sold: 5,079

Fly So High

Released: June 13, 2007
Oricon Top 100 Weekly Peak: #27
Copies Sold: 3,581

fiesta!fiesta!

Released: September 05, 2007
Oricon Top 100 Weekly Peak: #47
Copies Sold: 3,054

Upcoming Releases:
leave all behind
Release: April 23, 2008

Debut Album - "Untitled"
Release: May 14, 2008

REAL YOU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzqTCetJu7A
EYES ON ME: http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance...es-on-me_music
Fly So High: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcWIbNdpt4E
fiesta!fiesta!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYWdtVdibgE
leave all behind: http://www.dailymotion.com/FinalHikari/video/8201424