Akiko Yano (矢野 顕子, Yano Akiko, born Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 顕子, Suzuki Akiko); February 13, 1955) is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer born in Tokyo and raised in Aomori and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s. She has been called "one of the major musical talents of the Japanese popular music world", and her vocals and singing style have been compared to English singer Kate Bush.

Filmography

• tiny desk concerts JAPAN — Piano･Keyboard･Vocal
• 2022ELLEGARDEN: Lost & Found
• 2022Love Life — Songs, Theme Song Performance
• Blanket Cats — Theme Song Performance
• 2013Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship — Musician
• 2012Bread of Happiness — Theme Song Performance
• 2011Director Disqualified — Original Music Composer, Music Supervisor
• 2011YANOYA — Original Music Composer
• 2008Ponyo — Ponyo's Sister (voice)
• 2006House Hunting — (Voice)
• 2006Mon Mon the Water Spider — Mon Mon / Miss Pond Skater / Water flea (voice)
• 2005Portrait of the Wind — Original Music Composer
• 1999My Neighbors the Yamadas — Teacher Fujihara (voice), Original Music Composer
• 1996Rebirth of Mothra — Songs, Original Music Composer
• 1992Super Folk Song: Piano ga Aishita Onna
• 1987Take the X Train — Theme Song Performance
• 1986Ryuichi Sakamoto – Media Bahn Live — Writer
• 1983Where the Toys Come From — Music

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2024Akiko Yano × Hiromi – Step Into Paradise -Live In Tokyo- — Self
• 2024Tonovan Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era — Self
• 1999Complete Hurrah — Self
• 1993TV-YMO — Self
• 1993YMO – Live At Budokan 1980 — self
• 1985Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto — Self