Narumi Yasuda

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''. She also won the award for best actress at the 13th Hochi Film Award for ''Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad''.

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'', "Kaze no Tani no Naushika", written by Takashi Matsumoto and composed by Haruomi Hosono. Provided by Wikipedia