Musician and actor Miho Nakayama, finest identified for her twin function within the profitable 1995 characteristic Love Letter and for her music profession within the Eighties and 90s, has died aged 54.
According to a report within the Japan Times, Nakayama was discovered lifeless at her house in Tokyo on Friday. The reason for demise has not been confirmed, however the Japan Times reported her physique was discovered within the bathtub, and her demise was confirmed by medical personnel.
Her administration firm launched a press release saying: “It is with deepest remorse that now we have to make this sudden announcement to all those that have been concerned with [Nakayama’s career] and to the followers who’ve supported her, but it surely has occurred so all of a sudden that we’re additionally surprised and saddened by the information. We are nonetheless within the strategy of confirming the reason for demise and different particulars.”
Born in 1970, Nakayama first made her title with a string of profitable J-pop singles and albums within the Eighties, together with C, Be-Bop High School and Tsuiteru ne Notteru ne; Nakayama then started performing in TV reveals and movies for which her songs acted as theme tunes, together with two entries within the Be-Bop High School collection and the romcom Who Do I Choose?
In the Nineteen Nineties, she continued to launch music efficiently, modulating to slower-paced and ballad-oriented materials resembling Midnight Taxi and Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto. She additionally took on extra bold performing roles with the Shunji Iwai-directed Love Letter, which was launched internationally underneath the title When I Close My Eyes. It was a considerable home hit and featured Nakayama in a twin function, enjoying a lady whose fiance dies in an accident and one other, extra mysterious character who bears a weird resemblance to him. Nakayama adopted this up with the lead function in Tokyo Biyori (aka Tokyo Weather), a movie primarily based on the lifetime of Yoko Araki, the spouse of photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, who documented their life collectively. Nakayama was nominated for a Japanese Academy Award in 1998 for her startlingly intimate efficiency.
In 2019, Nakayama launched her first studio album in twenty years and in the identical yr appeared in a small function in Iwai’s Last Letter.
