Emerging from a successful audition for a Haruki Kadokawa production, Yakushimaru entered the Japanese entertainment scene, debuting in the 1978 film Never Give Up and quickly becoming associated with the “Kadokawa Sannin-musume” trio of teen idols. Her breakthrough arrived with the 1981 hit Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, in which she starred and also performed the eponymous theme that topped the Or…
