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name: "Minoru Yada"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/minoru-yada"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 April 1931"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
updated: "2026-09-17T06:20:40.229848+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Minoru Yada

Actor. Born 27 April 1931 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 April 1931, Tokyo, Japan
- **Active:** 1984–1992
- **Works often with:** [Hayao Miyazaki](https://film.one/person/hayao-miyazaki.md), [Joe Hisaishi](https://film.one/person/joe-hisaishi.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 85 (1), 1990s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6869317, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944823/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/620

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Warriors of the Wind*](https://film.one/film/warriors-of-the-wind.md) (85), [*Porco Rosso*](https://film.one/film/porco-rosso.md) (81)

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## Biography

Minoru Yada is a Japanese actor and voice actor. Born on 27 April 1931 in Tokyo, he began his career as a child singer in 1939 and later worked as a child actor. He graduated from the Haiyuza Theater Company's actor training school in 1953 and has been active in voice work since the early days of Japanese animation.

He is known for voice roles including Niga in *Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind* (1984), an old man in *Porco Rosso* (1992), Hemulen in *Comet in Moominland* (1992), Silas in *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* (1980), and the referee in *Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express* (1996). He also voiced Keishichi Hayashi in *Tomorrow's Joe* (1970).

In 2020 he received the Merit Award at the 14th Seiyu Awards.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Porco Rosso* (1992), Fi1m 81, as (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/porco-rosso.md)
- *Warriors of the Wind* (1984), Fi1m 85, as Niga (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/warriors-of-the-wind.md)

## Also known for

- *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* (1980), Silas (voice)
- *Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express* (1996), Referee (voice)
- *Comet in Moominland* (1992), Hemulen (voice)
- *Tomorrow's Joe* (1970), Keishichi Hayashi (voice)

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