is a Japanese popular singer and actress. Yukimura made her debut with the song in 1953. Her style of singing varied from

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. She became one of the three most popular female singers in the early postwar Japan, along with Chiemi Eri and

Hibari Misora was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon. She received a Medal of Honor for her contributions to music and for improving the welfare of the public, and was the first woman to receive the People's Honour Award, which was conferred posthu ...

. On her 1974 album ''Super Generation'', she sang Ryoichi Hattori's songs along with four popular musicians:

Masataka Matsutoya is a Japanese arranger, composer, music producer, and motor journalist. He currently resides in Setagaya, Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio Senior High School and Keio University (literature department). His wife is singer-songwriter, composer, and ...

, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuo Hayashi and

Haruomi Hosono , sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in Japanese pop music history, credited with shaping the sound of Japanese pop for ...

. Eri, who died in 1982, and Misora, who died in 1989, also recorded songs with Yukimura as a group in the 1950s, but those recordings had not been released for about 50 years because they each belonged to separate record labels. In 2004, their album including those songs was finally released for the first time.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1951) (

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for the Japanese release of Disney film) * (1955) * (1956) * ''

Arashi is a Japanese boy band consisting of five members formed under the Johnny & Associates talent agency. The members are Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai, Masaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Jun Matsumoto. Arashi officially formed on September 15 ...

'' (1956) * aka ''The Princess of Badger Palace'' (1958) * (1958) * '' Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi'' (1959) * '' (1964) * '' The Laughing Frog'' (2002)

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* Japanese women singers Japanese idols Japanese actresses 1937 births Living people Singers from Tokyo {{Japan-singer-stub