Narumi Yasuda

Narumi Yasuda
Born (1966-11-28) 28 November 1966 (age 57)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationActress
Years active1982–present
Spouse
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(m. 1994)​

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]

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]

  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.