Hailing from Nagoya, Ishida Yuriko built a versatile career as both an actress and essayist, gaining early exposure through supporting roles in early 1990s films such as Boiling Point and Gokudo no Onna-tachi. She achieved widespread recognition when she supplied the Japanese voice for the heroine San in Hayao Miyazaki’s acclaimed 1997 animation Princess Mononoke, a performance that remains a benc…
