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]

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]