Biography
Narumi Yasuda (安田 成美 Yasuda Narumi?, born 28 November 1966 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Inuji ni seshi mono, Minami he 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]
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", composed by Haruomi Hosono (former Yellow Magic Orchestra member).[4]
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