Shinobu Nakayama
- Acting
- January 18, 1973 · Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Shinobu Nakayama (Nakayama Shinobu , born January 18, 1973) is an actress and a former J-pop singer. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, and released her first single on 2 November 1988. Her final release as a J-pop artist was on 1 March 1991. She was a member of the short-lived idol groups Nanatsuboshi and Rakutenshi. She is the younger sister of actress Miho Nakayama. Best known for her role of Mayumi Nagamine in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995) and Gamera 3: Incomplete Struggle (1999), Shinobu Nakayama like her older sister, Miho Nakayama, started out her career as a musician. Unfortunately, Nakayama could never quite attain the same popularity of her older sister as a solo artist, but became successful when she joined a music group called Rakutenshi. In the early 1990s Shinobu Nakayama started a career in acting, again following in the footsteps of her older sister. Her career finally started going after she landed a role in the Jet Li movie Fist of Legend, a remake of the Bruce Lee film Chinese Connection. Shortly afterwards she got the part of Mayumi Nagamine in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995), which lead to playing that same character four years later in Gamera 3: Incomplete Struggle (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Shinobu Nakayama, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Goodbye My Car
- Inheritence
- Japan's Number One Jerk Salaryman · Fumi Samejima / Minako Sonoda
- Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love · Usami
- A Suffocatingly Lonely Death
- Keishichō tsuiseki sōsa-gakari -kōsaku-
- After School Angler Life
- Me, My Husband & My Husband's Boyfriend
- Double · Minami Kamino
- 全身刑事 · Iyo Monda
- Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~ · Yuriko Shimatani [Tatsuo's wife]
- Honey · Kaori Onise
- Matchmaking Cruise
- Muyoan Retirement Training
- Cold Case: Door of Truth · Kawamura Kiyoko
- Come Back! Shuriken Sentai Ninninger: Ninnin Girls vs. Boys FINAL WARS · Sakurako Igasaki
- 99.9 Criminal Lawyer · Ikue Yamashiro
- Ghost Writer's Homicide Coverage 2 - Writing About a Celebrity's Crime
- Dr. Hikojiro · Ruriko Segawa
- Keiji Yoshinaga Seiichi Namida no Jikenbo
- Tenshi wa Mop wo Motte
- Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon · Emi Kujo
- Solitary Gourmet
- CSI: Crime Scene Talks
- Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace · Fujikawa
- TANNKA · Mika
- Baian Fujieda the Assassin
- Seven Female Lawyers
- 弟
- Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple
- Batsu Kare
- Divorce Lawyer · Mari Nonami
- 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ · Tsuruko Igawa
- KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!! · Thanks
- Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game · Guest
- Sutegoro: The Three Kajiwara Brothers' Turbulent Showa History
- 恋に唄えば♪
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
- Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
- 眼科医 小室瞳の推理カルテ
- The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
- Big Wing
- Kanojotachi no Jidai
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris · Dr. Mayumi Nagamine
- GAMERA 1999
- Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror II
- The Donor
- The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa · Chie Ito
- The New King of Kita
- Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe · Dr. Mayumi Nagamine
- The Making of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
- Fist of Legend · Mitsuko Yamada
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II · Yuri Katagiri
- Eleven Without Honor or Humanity
- Midnight Run Main Store 2 · Natsuki Aratama
- My Home Yakuza
- High School Jingi Gaiden: Chi o haumono
- Junji Inagawa: True Story
- Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You · Sachiko
- 刑事貴族
- Kagaku Sentai Dynaman: The Movie · Boy