Ayumi Ishida

Biography

Ayumi Ishida (いしだ あゆみ, Ishida Ayumi; March 26, 1948 – March 11, 2025) was a Japanese actress and singer, whose real name was Yoshiko Ishida (石田 良子, Ishida Yoshiko). She was the second among four daughters. She won the award for Best Actress at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival for Yajūdeka. She also won the awards for best actress at the 29th Blue Ribbon Awards and the 11th Hochi Film Award for House on Fire and Tokei - Adieu l'hiver.
As for her musical career, she was best known for the singles "BLUE LIGHT Yokohama" (which topped the charts in 1968/1969 at #1), "Anata nara Dō Suru (#2), and "Sabaku no You na Tokyo de" (#3).
On March 17, 2025, her agency announced that she had died from hypothyroidism on March 11. She was 76.

Film

1973 – Submersion of Japan
1977 – Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen
1979 – Hunter in the Dark
1981 – Station
1982 – Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982 – Yajū-deka
1986 – Tokei - Adieu l'hiver
1986 – House on Fire
1988 – Umi e, See You
1996 – Gakko II
1998 – Puraido: Unmei no Toki
2011 – Eclair
2024 – Shinji Muroi: Not Defeated
2024 – Shinji Muroi: Stay Alive

Television drama

Ashura no Gotoku (1979–1980)
Oda Nobunaga: Tenka wo Totta Baka (1998), Dota Gozen
Saiyūki (2006)
Smile (2009)

Singles

"Taiyō wa Naiteru" (1968) (#18 Oricon charts)
"Futari dake no Shiro" (1968)
"BLUE LIGHT Yokohama" (1968) (#1)
"Namida no Naka o Aruiteru" (1969) (#10)
"Kyō kara Anata o" (1969) (#7)
"Kenka no Aoto de Kuchizuke o" (1969) (#7)
"Anata nara Dō Suru" (1970) (#2)
"Kinō no Onna" (1970) (#8)
"Nani ga Anata o Sōsaseta" (1970) (#12)
"Tomenaide" (1971) (#20)
"Sabaku no Yō na Tokyo de" (1971) (#3)
"Omoide no Nagasaki" (1971) (#10)
"Sasurai no Tenshi" (1972) (#18)
"Marude Tobenai Kotori no Yō ni" (1972) (#45)
"Umare Kawareru Mono Naraba" (1972) (#43)
"Ai Shū" (1973) (#51)
"Nagisa Nite" (1973) (#52)
"Ai no Hyōga" (1973) (#42)
"Shiawase Datta wa Arigato" (1974) (#42)
"Koi wa Hatsukoi" (1974) (#54)
"Utsukushii Wakare" (1974) (#74)
"Ieji" (1974)
"Machiwabite mo" (1975)
"Toki ni wa Hitori de" (1975) (#83)
"Tomadoi" (1976)
"Chotto Sabishii Haru Desu ne" (1977)
"Kō Sakamichi Ijinkan" (1977)
"Konya wa Hoshizora" (1978)
"Osaka no Onna" (1978)
"MILD NIGHT" (1979) (#86)
"MILD WOMAN ROCK" (1980)
"Akai Giyaman" (1981)
"Hagoromo Tennyo" (1985) (#78)
"Wakare Michi" (1986)

Albums

Blue Light Yokohama (1969)
Lonely Night With Ayumi Ishida (1970)
My First Recital (1970)
Fantasy (1972)
Ayumi Ishida Sings Her Best Hits (1972)
Our Connection (with Tin Pan Alley, 1977)
Ayumi Ishida (1981)

In other media

Ayumi Ishida is mentioned in the 2017 crime/mystery novel Blue Light Yokohama by Nicolás Obregón to be printed in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph and Minotaur in the USA.
Ayumi Ishida is mentioned in Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.

Honours

Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2021)