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Mari Natsuki (夏木マリ Natsuki Mari, real name 中島淳子 Nakajima Junko, born 1952-05-02) is a Japanese singer, dancer and actress.

Biography

Natuski Mari was born on May 2nd, 1952 in Tokyo, Japan. She started work as a singer from a very young age, her specialty being jazz and a level of sensuality that was somewhat shocking in a Japan as conservative as it was at the time.

Her movements, even while singing, are smooth, graceful and have a trademark undulating of the hand at the audience which, with a simple imitation, can bring only her to mind.

Natuki further shocked the Japanese audiences by performing in full nudity in the Fukasaku Kinji movie Satomi Hakkenden (Legend of the Eight Samurai) in 1983.

Despite her explicit and desirable femininity, Natsuki Mari concentrated all her energy into her art and shunned traditional values of becoming the homemaker or quitting her job after a certain age. Thus, she never married, either, which made her quite an icon for what the call a Kakkoii Onna, or "classy woman" in modern Japan today. Today she continues to work as a expressionalist singer and performer, as well as an actress. She participates in a wide variety of musical theatre including that of Yukio Ninagawa. She has also performed as the witch Yuu-Baba in Miyazaki Hayao's cartoon Spirited Away
and performed in the Bewitched in Tokyo remake as the young witch's mother, a role which clearly captures the very essence of the great Natsuki Mari.

Filmography

Satomi Hakkenden (Legend of the Eight Samurai) (1983)
Kita no hotaru (1984)
Death Powder (1986)
Jittemai (1986)
Otoko wa tsurai yo
: Boku no ojisan (1989)
The Hunted (1995)
Spirited Away
(2001
Okusama wa majo (2004))

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Actors - Mari Natsuki

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