Japanese singer and actress Miho Nakayama, greatest identified for her position within the 1995 romantic movie “Love Letter,” was discovered lifeless at her dwelling in Tokyo on Friday. She is 54 years outdated.
Zhongshan’s crew confirmed the information in a put up on her web site, writing: “We’re very sorry to must all of the sudden announce this information to all related personnel who’ve all the time cared about her and all followers who help her, however this matter is so We’re additionally shocked and saddened by the sudden incident. We’re at present investigating the reason for loss of life and different particulars.
In line with the BBC, an acquaintance in Zhongshan discovered her lifeless within the bathtub after she failed to indicate up for work. The acquaintance known as paramedics, who pronounced her lifeless on the scene. She was scheduled to carry out at a Christmas live performance in Osaka on Friday however canceled attributable to well being causes.
Nakayama was born in Saku Metropolis, Japan on March 1, 1970. He made his display debut within the TV sequence “Maido Osawagase Shimasu” in 1985 and have become well-known immediately. Quickly after, she launched her first single “C” after which starred within the blockbuster film “Be-Bop Excessive Faculty.” Her work in movie, tv and music made her considered one of Japan’s hottest idols throughout Japan’s vastly profitable interval of cultural export within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.
She is greatest identified for the 1995 romance “Love Letters,” which tells the story of a girl grieving for her fiancé who develops an uncommon relationship with one other girl who shares the identical identify as her late fiancé. Nakayama performs two characters within the movie, which was a hit on the native and worldwide field workplace and received the Viewers Award on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition. For her efficiency, she was named Finest Actress on the Japan Blue Ribbon Awards and the Hochi Movie Awards the next 12 months.
Throughout her profession, Nakayama recorded 22 studio albums and had eight primary singles in Japan, together with “Catch Me”, “You are My Solely Shining Star” and “Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto” “(“Absolutely Extra Than”) anybody on this planet”). She has starred in a complete of 14 movies, most just lately 2022’s “Homicide Lesson,” in addition to dozens of sequence and TV motion pictures.
Nakayama is survived by her son, whom she had along with her ex-husband, musician Tsuji Ninchei.
