Narumi Yasuda Explained

Narumi Yasuda
Birth Date:	1966 11, df=y
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Occupation:	Actress
Years Active:	1982–present

is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Inujini seshi mono, Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o! and Sorobanzuku.^[1] She also won the award for best actress at the 13th Hochi Film Award for Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad.^[2]

Yasuda was born in Tokyo. Initially she was the winner of a competition to find a singer to sing the theme song and promote Hayao Miyazaki's now-popular anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,^[3] "Kaze no Tani no Naushika", written by Takashi Matsumoto and composed by Haruomi Hosono.^[4]

Selected filmography

Films

• Inujini seshi mono (1986)
• Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o! (1986)
• Sorobanzuku (1986)
• Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad (1988)
• My Soul Is Slashed (1991)
• (2010)
• Fukushima 50 (2020)
• Under the Open Sky (2021)^[5]

Television

• Sugao no Mama De (1992), Yumiko Kosaka
• Teppan (2010–2011), Machiko Murakami
• Totto TV (2016), Cho Kuroyanagi
• Miotsukushi Ryōrichō (2017)

Dubbing

• The Good Dinosaur, Momma Ida^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/08-1986/08_1986_shou.html. ja:第８回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８６年日本映画個人賞. 31 March 2010. Yokohama Film Festival. ja. https://web.archive.org/web/20120928063346/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/08-1986/08_1986_shou.html. 28 September 2012. dead.
2. Web site: http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1988/. ja:報知映画賞ヒストリー. 24 January 2010. ja. Cinema Hochi. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090131124908/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1988/. 31 January 2009.
3. Web site: Studio Ghibli Songs. http://avaxhome.ws. 24 September 2011.
4. Web site: Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind): Credits, Figures & Other Information. Nausicaa.net. 23 June 2011.
5. Web site: すばらしき世界. May 12, 2021. eiga.com.
6. Web site: アーロと少年. January 7, 2022. Fukikaeru.