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Voice Actor
Sumi Shimamoto
島本須美
Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Website (WMG) | Wiki (JP) A Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator of film, anime and video games. She is currently independent of any talent management company. After graduating from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music, she joined Gekidan Seinenza, a theatrical acting troupe. Her best-known voice roles include Nausicaä in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Kyouko Otonashi in Maison Ikkoku. She won the role of Nausicaä as she had played Clarisse in The Castle of Cagliostro and impressed Hayao Miyazaki. She is married to Daisuke Koshikawa, one of the founders of the comedy…
Voice roles
Other work
Virgin Fleet
1998 · 3 ep
Theme Song Performance (OP, ED)
Ocean Waves
1993 · 1 ep
Dialect Guidance
A Little Princess Sara
1985 · 46 ep
Insert Song Performance