Narumi Yasuda

Narumi Yasuda (安田 成美, Yasuda Narumi, born 28 November 1966) 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]

Narumi Yasuda
Born	(1966-11-28) 28 November 1966 (age 58) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Noritake Kinashi ​ (m. 1994)​

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)
• Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (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]

References

1. 第８回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８６年日本映画個人賞 [8th Yokohama Film Festival 1986 Japanese Film Individual Award] (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
2. 報知映画賞ヒストリー [Hochi Film Award History] (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 31 January 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
3. "Studio Ghibli Songs". avaxhome.ws. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
4. "Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind): Credits, Figures & Other Information". Nausicaa.net. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
5. すばらしき世界 [Under the Open Sky]. eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 May 2021.
6. アーロと少年 [The Good Dinosaur]. Fukikaeru (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 January 2022.

External links

• Narumi Yasuda at IMDb
• Narumi Yasuda at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)