Shinobu Nakayama
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).
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Full filmography
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002)
- Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon (2012)
- Solitary Gourmet (2012)
- 99.9 Criminal Lawyer (2016) as Ikue Yamashiro
- CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
- Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game (2003) as Guest
- 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ (2004) as Tsuruko Igawa
- Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~ (2016)
- Divorce Lawyer (2004) as Mari Nonami
- Seven Female Lawyers (2006)
- Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004)
- Fist of Legend (1994) as Mitsuko Yamada
- A Suffocatingly Lonely Death (2024)
- 刑事貴族 (1990)
- Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love (2024) as Usami
- Muyoan Retirement Training (2017)
- Me, My Husband & My Husband's Boyfriend (2023)
- Double (2022) as Minami Kamino
- Japan's Number One Jerk Salaryman (2025) as Fumi Samejima / Minako Sonoda
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) as Yuri Katagiri
- Kanojotachi no Jidai (1999)
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) as Dr. Mayumi Nagamine
- Big Wing (2001)
- Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995) as Dr. Mayumi Nagamine