---
name: "Aya Furukawa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aya-furukawa"
fi1m_id: "aya-furukawa"
imdb_id: "nm4961141"
tmdb_id: 1275704
wikidata_id: "Q108886749"
roles: []
born: "12 April 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T04:37:38.748056+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aya Furukawa

## Identity

Aya Furukawa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aya-furukawa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aya-furukawa
- **IMDb ID:** nm4961141
- **TMDB ID:** 1275704
- **Wikidata ID:** Q108886749
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108886749, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4961141/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1275704

Actor. Born 12 April 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

## Details

- **Born:** 12 April 1999, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 75 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Mystery 2, Comedy 1, Horror 1, Kids 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $71m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108886749, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4961141/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1275704

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Baby-Sitters Club*](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Aya Furukawa is a Japanese-Canadian actor born on 12 April 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is bilingual in English and Japanese.

Furukawa is known for her role as Janine Kishi in the Netflix series *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020–2021). Other credits include *The Cabin in the Woods* (2012) as a Japanese schoolgirl, Sachiko in *The Terror* (2019), Natsuki in *The Midnight Club* (2022), and Tina in *The Fall of the House of Usher* (2023). Her performance as Natsuki earned a Leo Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Dramatic Series in 2023. She is also set to appear as Sidney in the 2025 film *Sweetness*.

*Sources: imdb.com, babysittersclub.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Fall of the House of Usher* (2023), Fi1m 65, as Tina — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher.md)
- *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), Fi1m 85, as Janine Kishi — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md)
- *The Cabin in the Woods* (2012), Fi1m 80, as Japanese School Girl — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cabin-in-the-woods.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sweetness* (2026), as Sidney
- *The Fall of the House of Usher* (2023), series, as Tina — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher.md)
- *Cafe Racer* (2023), as Rini
- *The Midnight Club* (2022), series, as Natsuki
- *The Baby-Sitters Club* (2020), series, as Janine Kishi — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-baby-sitters-club.md)
- *The Cabin in the Woods* (2012), as Japanese School Girl — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cabin-in-the-woods.md)

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