Person
Naoko Asari
Sound · Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Naoko Asari (浅梨 なおこ, Asari Naoko, born January 24) is a Japanese film sound engineer and animation sound director from Tokyo. She joined Omnibus Promotion in 1981 as a sound assistant. She mainly worked on Studio Ghibli works, and after that, she worked on many live-action, film music and sound editing. After being away from the animation sound direction for a long time since the 1996 TV anime Kodocha, she was in charge of the recording direction of the 2013 movie The Tale of the Princess Kaguya for the first time in 17 years, her first Studio Ghibli work since the 1995 film Whisper of the Heart.
Known for
My Neighbor Totoro
Other
Kiki's Delivery Service
Sound Director
Criminal
Sound Designer
Midnight Diner
Sound Supervisor
Porco Rosso
Recording Supervision
Whisper of the Heart
Sound Director
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Sound Supervisor
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Sound Designer
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Music Editor
Fight! Kickers
Sound Director
Filmography
- 2026CriminalSound Designer
- 2024We Don't Know Love YetMusic Editor
- 2024ConfessionSound Designer
- 2023You Made My DawnSound Designer
- 2022Gon-MamaSound Designer
- 2021We Couldn't Become AdultsSound Designer
- 2021The Cinderella AddictionSound Re-Recording Mixer
- 2020Not Quite Dead YetSound Designer
- 2019Chiwawa-chanSound Designer
- 2017Tokyo GhoulSound Designer
- 2016Midnight Diner 2Sound Supervisor
- 2016Midnight Diner: Tokyo StoriesSound Supervisor
- 2014Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess KaguyaSelf
- 2014Midnight DinerSound Designer
- 2014Judge!Sound Designer
- 2013The Tale of The Princess KaguyaSound Designer
- 2013A Boy Called HMusic Editor
- 2012Robo-GMusic Editor
- 2010Box!Sound Editor
- 2009Midnight DinerSound Supervisor
- 2008Samurai GangstersMusic Editor
- 2008After SchoolSound Editor
- 2005Shinobi: Heart Under BladeMusic Editor
- 2004The Hidden BladeSound Editor
- 2004Heaven's BookstoreMusic Editor
- 2003Akame 48 WaterfallsSongs
- 2002The Twilight SamuraiMusic Editor
- 2000Godzilla vs. MegaguirusMusic Editor
- 1999Godzilla 2000: MillenniumMusic Editor
- 1995Whisper of the HeartSound Director
- 1995Chage & Aska: On Your MarkSound
- 1992Porco RossoRecording Supervision
- 1991MikadroidSound
- 1989Kiki's Delivery ServiceSound Director
- 1988My Neighbor TotoroOther
- 1986Fight! KickersSound Director
- 1984RanpouSound Director
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