Naoko Asari

Known For: Sound

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.

Filmography

2024

Confession ... (Sound Designer)
We Don't Know Love Yet ... (Music Editor)

2023

You Made My Dawn ... (Sound Designer)

2022

Gon-Mama ... (Sound Designer)

2021

We Couldn't Become Adults ... (Sound Designer)
The Cinderella Addiction ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)

2020

Not Quite Dead Yet ... (Sound Designer)

2019

Chiwawa-chan ... (Sound Designer)

2017

Tokyo Ghoul ... (Sound Designer)

2016

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories ... (Sound Supervisor)
Midnight Diner 2 ... (Sound Supervisor)

2014

Midnight Diner ... (Sound Designer)
Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya as Self
Judge! ... (Sound Designer)

2013

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya ... (Sound Designer)
A Boy Called H ... (Music Editor)

2012

Robo-G ... (Music Editor)

2010

Box! ... (Sound Editor)

2009

Midnight Diner ... (Sound Supervisor)

2008

After School ... (Sound Editor)
Samurai Gangsters ... (Music Editor)

2005

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade ... (Music Editor)

2004

The Hidden Blade ... (Sound Editor)
Heaven's Bookstore ... (Music Editor)

1992

Porco Rosso ... (Recording Supervision)

1991

Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla ... (Sound)

1989

Kiki's Delivery Service ... (Sound Director)

1988

My Neighbor Totoro ... (Other)

1986

Fight! Kickers ... (Sound Director)

1984

Ranpou ... (Sound Director)