Ayumi Ishida

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. On March 17, 2025, her agency announced that she had died from hypothyroidism on March 11. She was 76.

Ayumi Ishida studied at Ueno Gakuen Junior High School and High School and Ikeda Elementary School. The recorded working language is Japanese. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are kayōkyoku. Works named in the authority record are Blue Light Yokohama and House on Fire. Distinctions recorded are Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress and Golden Arrow Award.

• Name — Ayumi Ishida • Birth Name — Yoshiko Ishida • Native Name — いしだ あゆみ • Born — 26 March 1948 • Birthplace — Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan • Died — 11 March 2025 • Place of death — Tokyo, Japan • Origin — Ikeda, Osaka, Japan • Genre — Enka, kayōkyoku • Occupation — Idol, singer, actress • Label — Victor Entertainment (1964–1968) Nippon Columbia (1968–1980) Alfa Records (1981–1984) Sony Music Records (1985) Taurus Records (1986) • Website — https: izawaoffice.jp/artist/ishida.php

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

• "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)

• 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)

• Year||#||Song||No.||VS||Remarks • 1969 (Showa 44)/20th — 1 — Blue Light Yokohama (ブルー・ライト・ヨコハマ) — 2/23 — Masao Sen • 1970 (Showa 45)/21st — 2 — Anata Naradousuru (あなたならどうする) — 19/24 — Kazuo Funaki • 1971 (Showa 46)/22nd — 3 — Sabaku No Youna Tokyou (砂漠のような東京で) — 16/25 — Hideo Murata • 1972 (Showa 47)/23rd — 4 — Umarekawarumononaraba (生まれかわるものならば) — 9/23 — Aoi Sankaku Jyougi • 1973 (Showa 48)/24th — 5 — Blue Light Yokohama (2) — 2/22 — Teruhiko Saigō • 1974 (Showa 49)/25th — 6 — Utsukushiki Wakare (美しい別れ) — 21/25 — Hachiro Kasuga • 1975 (Showa 50)/26th — 7 — Nagisanite (渚にて) — 21/24 — Hachiro Kasuga (2) • 1976 (Showa 51)/27th — 8 — Tokiniwa Hitoride (時には一人で) — 12/24 — Yukio Hashi • 1977 (Showa 52)/28th — 9 — Minato Sakamichi Ijinyakata (港・坂道・異人館) — 16/24 — Frank Nagai • 1993 (Heisei 5)/44th — 10 — Blue Light Yokohama (3) — 8/26 — Tetsuya Watari — First Half Finale, returned after 16 years.

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.