Shinobu Nakayama
Birthday: 1973-01-18 | Place of Birth: Koganei, Tokyo Prefecture, JapanShinobu 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
Acting
Role
as Fumi Samejima / Minako Sonoda
as Usami
as Minami Kamino
as Iyo Monda
as Kaori Onise
as Sakurako Igasaki
as Ruriko Segawa
as Fujikawa
as Mika
as Dr. Mayumi Nagamine
as Dr. Mayumi Nagamine
as Mitsuko Yamada
as Natsuki Aratama
as Yuri Katagiri
