Yumi Asou

Yumi Aso
Native name	麻生 祐未
Born	Yumi Okumura (1963-08-15) August 15, 1963 Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Toshiya Nagasawa (2004–2008)
Children	1

Yumi Okumura (奥村 由美, Okumura Yumi, born August 15, 1963), better known by the stage name Yumi Aso (麻生 祐未, Asō Yumi), is a Japanese actress. She is a niece of singer Chiyo Okumura. She married actor ja in March 2004, and they had one child. The couple separated less than two years later, and officially divorced in 2008.

Biography

She was born in Osaka Prefecture but grew up in Nagasaki Prefecture. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University.

She appeared in Yojiro Takita's 1986 film Comic Magazine with Yuya Uchida and Beat Takeshi. She also appeared in Lee Sang-il's 2002 film Border Line with Tetsu Sawaki and Ken Mitsuishi.

Selected filmography

Film

• Aitsu to Lullaby (1983)
• Comic Magazine (1986)
• Yakuza Tosei no Suteki na Menmen (1988)
• Kachō Kōsaku Shima (1992)
• Tetto Musashino-sen (1997)
• Detective Riko (1998)
• Yūjō: Friendship (1998)
• Kizuna (1998)
• Detective Riko: Megami no Eien (1988)
• Border Line (2002)
• Last Scene (2002)
• Rockers (2003)
• Survive Style 5+ (2004)
• The Pavillion Salamandre (2006)
• Oh! Oku (2006)
• Koizora (2007)

Television

• Takeda Shingen (1988), as Nōhime
• Aishiteiru to Itte Kure (1995), as Hikaru Shimada
• Byakuyakō [Journey Under the Midnight Sun] (2006)
• Ryūsei no Kizuna (2008)
• Jin (2009)
• General Rouge no Gaisen (2010)
• Shinzanmono (2010)
• The Legend of Yang Guifei (2010)
• Carnation (2011-2012)
• Hana Moyu (2015), as Kaneko Tsuru
• The Emperor's Cook (2015), as Okichi

External links

• Official agency profile (Japanese)
• Yumi Asou at the Internet Movie Database
• Yumi Asou at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)