Miho Nakayama

Miho Nakayama

Born: March 1, 1970
in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Miho Nakayama (中山 美穂, Nakayama Miho, born 1 March 1970) is a Japanese singer and actress. She is affiliated with Big Apple Co., Ltd.[3][4] Nakayama is nicknamed Miporin (ミポリン), and sometimes uses the pseudonyms Mizuho Kitayama (北山 瑞穂, Kitayama Mizuho) or Issaque (一咲(いっさく), Issaku) when she writes the lyrics. Nakayama made her debut on 21 June 1985 with her single "C", as well as a starring role in the film Be-Bop High School. Throughout her career as a singer and actress, Nakayama recorded 22 studio albums and scored eight No. 1 singles on Oricon's charts; two of them selling over a million copies each. In 1995, director Shunji Iwai cast Nakayama in the starring dual roles of Hiroko Watanabe and Itsuki Fujii in the film Love Letter. The film was a huge box-office success, and Nakayama won Best Actress awards for her role in the film at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards, the 17th Yokohama Film Festival[8] and the 18th Hochi Film Awards. Nakayama was nominated for a Best Actress Japanese Academy Award in 1998 for her role in Tokyo Biyori, and has appeared in a number of TV series including Love Story (2001).

Movies for Miho Nakayama...

Title: Renovation Like Magic
Released: July 18, 2022
Type: TV
Thirty-year-old Koume Shingyouji leaves her job at a major building firm to join family-run Marufuku Builders. There she teams up with Gennosuke, the Fukuyama family’s eldest son, and starts working on renovations. Koume and Gennosuke start their renovations by taking the measure not of rooms, but the thoughts and feelings of their clients: What does home mean to them? How do they want to live? What do they value? The team’s empathetic connection is what makes their work, work.
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Lesson in Murder
Title: Lesson in Murder
Character: Ms. Kakei
Released: May 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when Haimura was committing his murders, he ran a bakery store. At that time, Masaya was a middle-school student and a customer at his bakery store. According to the letter, Haimura confesses to having committed eight murders, but he insists that he did not commit the last murder. Masaya begins to investigate the last murder case involving Haimura.
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Title: The High School Heroes
Character: Ruriko Manaka
Released: July 31, 2021
Type: TV
Gosei School has a long history. The principal of the school is highly ambitious and he tries to achieve his goals by using supernatural majin powers. Six students go up against the principal. The students are Taisei Manaka (Taisho Iwasaki), Ryuhei Domon (Ryuga Sato), Yusuke Takigawa (Yuto Nasu), Hyuma Oura (Hidaka Ukisho), Naoya Morimura (Naoki Fujii) and Ichika Sakurai (Issei Kanasashi).
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Noukagaku Bengoshi Kaidou Azusa Doubt
Title: Noukagaku Bengoshi Kaidou Azusa Doubt
Character: Fuyukawa Sayaka
Released: April 12, 2021
Type: Movie
The story describes how Kaidou Azusa, a practising lawyer and a special appointment associate professor doing research on the brain's memories, is engaged to defend a woman Fuyukawa Sayaka accused of killing her sculptor husband and found to have two ex-fiances who also died mysteriously.
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Title: Three Star Bar in Nishi Ogikubo
Released: February 11, 2021
Type: TV
Three Star Bar is a small bar in the Nishi Ogikubo area of Tokyo, Japan. Three men work at the bar. They are the handsome bartender Amamiya, quiet cook Nakauchi and bar owner Kobayashi. People who have worries about various things in their lives visit the bar as customers. These three men also seem to have something from their past.
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Last Letter
Title: Last Letter
Character: Skae
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: Movie
It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?
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Title: Things You Can Know by Looking at Them
Character: 内田百百子
Released: January 11, 2020
Type: TV
Momoko Uchida lives in an expensive apartment in Tokyo. She is a manga writer. Momoko Uchida is in her second marriage and has a son attending a university. Her friend Mizuki Tomizawa is the same age her and lives in the same apartment building. One day, a newlywed couple, including wife Rumi Kamoi, move into the same apartment building. The newlywed husband is Momoko Uchida's ex-husband. They divorced 20 years ago.
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The Tragedy of W
Title: The Tragedy of W
Released: November 23, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of a rich family torn apart by the murder of their patriarch, and their heiress being accused of the crime, becomes a play and is acted out by a troupe of actors in Osaka.
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108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba
Title: 108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba
Character: Ayako
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Screenwriter Goro Kaiba is horrified to learn via Facebook that his wife Ayako is having an affair. Furthermore, her post about the affair has received 108 likes. Absolutely furious, Goro Kaiba contemplates divorcing his wife, but he estimates he will have to pay her half of his assets, about 10,000,000 million yen, in a divorce. To get revenge, Goro Kaiba decides to use that money on a epic one month womanizing streak. His goal is 108, the number of likes his wife received on social media.
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The Confidence Man JP: Fortune
Title: The Confidence Man JP: Fortune
Released: May 18, 2019
Type: Movie
How much of a role does luck play in a person's life? Some people believe you create your own luck. Kingpin Akutsu Akira relies only on himself to get what he wants. Dako gets a taste of her own medicine when Akutsu cheats her of her money to avenge his friend, who was a victim of Dako's scam. Will Dako give in to her fate? How will she climb out of the rut this time?
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Title: Tokyo 23-ku Onna
Released: April 12, 2019
Type: TV
Freelance writer Harada Ririko and former lecturer on folklore Shimano Hitoshi go around to Tokyo’s hidden spots with horror stories. They encounter many apparitions in places that everyone knows about in the 23 wards. There is the office lady who wanders the subterranean drains of Shibuya ward in search of her missing mother. The mistress who hides a dead body in Koto ward’s Yume no Shima. The riddle of the Ikebukuro woman and romance in old age. The secret of the female CEO who encounter an apparition in a late night taxi plying Minato ward. The doctor’s wife whose fate is at the mercy of Itabashi ward’s tree which is supposed to severe ties between man and woman. The mystery of a woman and the Suzugamori execution grounds related to a crime scene in Shinagawa ward.
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Aiuta: My Promise to Nakuhito
Title: Aiuta: My Promise to Nakuhito
Character: Saeko Hashino
Released: January 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Not having the courage to love, Toru became an adult. One day, he meets his and old friend who happens to find a poem which changes will his fate. This will make Toru gain enough courage to face love once again. He meets a girl Nagi who is bond into his fate, though she has a particular secret
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Title: Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight
Character: Mariko Takizawa
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: TV
Kanji Takizawa worked diligently at a bank, successfully reaching the position of branch manager. Despite the fact that his conversation with his wife Mariko was dwindling and there was a growing distance between him and his young, unmarried daughter, Misaki, he had come to accept his peaceful life. One day, Kanji gets loaned out to a client company for an unjustifiable reason. Shocked, Kanji lies to his family that he was going on a business trip to Switzerland, where he meets and finds a kindred spirit in Shiori Meguro. Meanwhile, Mariko suspects that her husband may be having an affair, and finds herself falling in forbidden love with her daughter’s fiancé, Haruki Hino.
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Butterfly Sleep
Title: Butterfly Sleep
Character: Ryoko Matsumura
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. She meets a young Korean man in his 20's. They become attracted to each other.
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Marmalade Boy
Title: Marmalade Boy
Character: Chiyako
Released: April 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
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Title: The Makioka Sisters
Character: Makioka Tsuruko
Released: January 7, 2018
Type: TV
Taking place in the spring of 1992, the story begins with the father of the Makioka company handing his company over. It starts a new era for the lives of the 4 Makioka sisters. Tsuruko continues living with the memory of their family's former glory, though it no longer remains. Yukiko, not dissatisfied with her married life, finds herself worrying over her sisters' behavior. Yukiko, the third born daughter, is seeking to marry but has failed matchmaking many times. The youngest, Taeko, gets caught in a typhoon that hits Kansai...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
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花実のない森
Title: 花実のない森
Released: March 29, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Love of Sage
Character: Mayuko Takanaka
Released: August 20, 2016
Type: TV
A woman has trained her ex-best friend's son to be her sexual slave for 20 years because her best friend stole her first love. What was meant to be revenge. Ending will come with great impact.
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Title: Platonic
Character: Sara Mochizuki
Released: May 25, 2014
Type: TV
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I Have To Buy New Shoes
Title: I Have To Buy New Shoes
Character: Aoi Teshigawara
Released: October 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Freelance writer Aoi Teshigahara lives in Paris, France. Sen Yagami is a photographer who came to Paris, France due to his younger sister Suzume's insistance. Over the next 3 days, Aoi Teshigahara and Sen Yagami fall in love. Meanwhile, Suzume meets her boyfriend Kango, whom they have been in a long distance relationship.
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Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi
Title: Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi
Character: 高津千絵
Released: March 20, 2012
Type: Movie
The drama is set on the Twilight Express, Japan's longest overnight train service, which runs approximately 22 hours between Osaka and Sapporo. Nakayama and Sato play Chie and Keisuke, two lovers who have decided to part ways at the end of the journey. Chie already has a family but has been carrying on a passionate, secret affair with Keisuke. The story mainly takes place in their suite room on the train. The drama was filmed aboard the actual Twilight Express with cooperation from the JR West company, which operates the train service.
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Goodbye, Someday
Title: Goodbye, Someday
Character: Toko
Released: January 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Higashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Michiko, a relative of the airline's founder, and though he doesn't love her, he knows he could be CEO one day if they wed. In Thailand, Yutaka meets Touko at a bar and is instantly drawn to her. His relationship with her only intensifies as the wedding date approaches. Eventually, he decides to break up with her and calls Michiko in front of her. Touko is disappointed, and the next day she leaves for New York. Yutaka and Michiko reunite in Thailand and proceed with their wedding. Twenty-five years later, Yutaka and Michiko are married with two sons. But Yutaka still harbors memories of Touko in his heart. Yutaka visits Bangkok on business and goes to the Oriental Hotel where he had stayed with Touko-and finds she is now in charge of VIP guests there. They realize their love for each other remains, but reality pulls them apart once again.
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Title: Time Limit Investigator
Character: Machiko Kotobuki
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: TV
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
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The King of Minami 27
Title: The King of Minami 27
Released: May 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi
Released: January 10, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Home & Away
Released: October 7, 2001
Type: TV
Kaede is good at heart and finds it difficult to refuse favors asked of her. And then she's got no sense of direction. On her travels, due to the whims of the gods, she gets involved in one calamity after another, but is able to give happiness to people who call on her for aid. For the people she meets up with, she seems to be an angel who brings happiness from somewhere and then goes silently on her way. She actually just wants to go home, but with all the things happening to her, home seems farther and farther away. Will she be able to return home by her wedding day, which is just a month away? How long will this calamitous journey of self-discovery continue?
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Title: Love Story
Released: April 15, 2001
Type: TV
Sudo Misaki, an editor with misgivings about her professional and private life, is assigned to Nagase Koh, a popular romance novelist who has been in a two-year slump. Despite his profession, Nagase has never experienced true romance and becomes quite uncomfortable at the prospect. However, these two find themselves curiously drawn to each other and begin writing their own love story.
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Title: Love 2000
Character: Mashiro Rieru
Released: January 10, 2000
Type: TV
Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.
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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1
Title: Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1
Released: August 27, 1999
Type: Movie
The first special of the Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi drama series.
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Title: A Sleeping Forest
Released: October 8, 1998
Type: TV
Nemureru Mori is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from 8 October 1998 to 24 December 1998. It is written by Nozawa Hisashi, starring Miho Nakayama and Takuya Kimura, and features music by Mariya Takeuchi and U2.
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Tokyo Fair Weather
Title: Tokyo Fair Weather
Character: Yoko Shimazu
Released: October 18, 1997
Type: Movie
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
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Title: Delicious Relation
Character: 藤原 百恵
Released: October 14, 1996
Type: TV
Momoe lives a life of luxury until one day, she loses everything... her money, her father and her lover. She must now find a way to support herself. With no experience whatsoever, she nonchalently applies for a position at at French restaurant where she once enjoyed a consomme soup many years earlier. Momoe was attracted to the French restaurant, La Petit Lapin, because of the wonderful owner, Kansuke and the delicious soup that was invented by the chef, Orita Keiji. Keiji, a first-rate chef, was trained in Paris at the two-star restaurant, Grand Bleu, and is as a result, a little spoiled and snobby. Find out what happens next when Momoe is taken on as an apprentice and must prove herself to Keiji.
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Title: For You
Character: Yoshikura Yayoi
Released: September 1, 1995
Type: TV
When only 19 years old Yayoi found herself pregnant and alone after the tragic death of her lover. Bravely she decided to bring up the child as an unmarried mother. For five years she has selflessly devoted herself to her son. Now 24, a change of job turns her life completely upside down. She falls deeply in love with a colleague called Toru. Unsure of his reaction, she keeps her son's existence a secret. Yayoi is torn between love for her dearest son and love for Toru. --Fuji Creative.
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Love Letter
Title: Love Letter
Character: Hiroko Watanabe
Released: March 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.
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Love Letter
Title: Love Letter
Character: Female Itsuki Fujii
Released: March 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.
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Title: もしも願いが叶うなら
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: TV
A romcom drama starring Miho Nakayama
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LIVE IN
Title: LIVE IN "Mellow" MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR '92
Character: Herself
Released: December 4, 1992
Type: Movie
LIVE IN "Mellow" MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR '92 is the 11th video release released by Nakayama Miho. It was released on December 4, 1992. It was recorded on September 18-19, 1992 @Nakano Sunplaza.
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Title: 誰かが彼女を愛してる
Released: October 14, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: Aitai Toki ni Anata wa Inai
Character: Miyoko Oki
Released: October 7, 1991
Type: TV
Miyoko and Yusuke love each other. But Yusuke is told to work in Hokkaido where is far from Tokyo for a year. They cannot meet often. There appear another woman and man in front of each of them. They almost lose confidence to keep their relationship but finally they make sure of their love.
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Cover as Many Waves as Possible
Title: Cover as Many Waves as Possible
Character: Mariko
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: Movie
The year is 1982, and the place is Shōnan in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. A group of passionate young people operate a beach radio station for the local community.
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Title: Wonderful Unrequited Love
Character: Keiko Yoda/Nana Hayashi
Released: October 15, 1990
Type: TV
Shumpei sometimes sees his neighbor Keiko, but doesn't think much of her. One of Keiko's friends gives her the phone number of a single guy, but when she calls she recognizes him as Shumpei, and gives him the made up name 'Nana.' When they meet face to face, she pretends not to know him, but through their phone calls, they slowly start to fall in love.
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Title: Tales of the Bizarre
Character: (segment "Kyofu no tezawari")
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.
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Title: Sotsugyō
Released: January 12, 1990
Type: TV
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Why Do I Choose?
Title: Why Do I Choose?
Released: August 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Who Do I Choose? is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Title: Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Released: February 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
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Title: 君の瞳に恋してる!
Character: 高木瞳
Released: January 16, 1989
Type: TV
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Mismatch - Miho & Shizuka Xmas Special
Title: Mismatch - Miho & Shizuka Xmas Special
Character: Tamaki Sugihara
Released: December 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Tamaki (Miho Nakayama) and Ako (Shizuka Kudo) are two friends living together. Although their personalities differ, they share the same wish - to find love before Christmas.
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Title: The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!
Character: Hirose Tomoko
Released: July 8, 1988
Type: TV
Tomoko and Satoshi who got married after the great love affair. Start a sweet newly-married life of only two people. At that time, Satoshi older brorher Haruo suddenly ordered an American relocation order, the three daughters Mari, Hanabi, Chieko , and mother-in-law Suddenly living with them.
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Idol Hotline: Miho Nakayama's Tokimeki High School
Title: Idol Hotline: Miho Nakayama's Tokimeki High School
Character: Herself
Released: February 29, 1988
Type: Movie
Hello, my name is Miho Nakayama. Thank you very much for participating in the Famicom event "Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School." And congratulations on winning a prize! I send you an autographed videotape. Please be careful with it. I will remember the drama (game) we starred together in forever as a precious memory, and I’m going to do my best in songs and dramas in the future. I’ll be happy if you also remembered this as a precious memory. And please watch over me from now on forever. Well then, I’m looking forward to the day we’ll meet again. For those who beat Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School and registered their "Best Ending" victory via the Disk Fax network, this tape was given out as a special prize to 8000 winners. This tape showcases behind the scenes footage of Nakayama Miho and her involvement in the game.
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Title: おヒマなら来てよネ!
Character: 佐竹希望 / 広瀬洋子 (二役)
Released: October 22, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Mama is an Idol
Released: April 14, 1987
Type: TV
A junior high school teacher marries a much younger woman despite his teenaged daughter’s disapproval. Her step-mother is now the sex idol for many of the boys in her school.
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Title: Daddy, the Newscaster
Released: January 9, 1987
Type: TV
He didn’t even like children, yet without warning, the handsome, single newscaster finds himself playing the role of father to three impertinent daughters. His entire image of the roles of the sexes gets turned upside down as he makes the transition from a swinger into a caring parent.
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Title: Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance
Character: Miho Yamagata
Released: October 13, 1986
Type: TV
Kokuchou Academy used to be an elite school but it is now a nest of evil. Accordingly, spunky schoolgirls Miho, Yumi, Ruri and Kei form the Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance to eliminate wrongdoers from the school premises, wearing heavy makeup in order to keep their identities hidden.
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Be-Bop High School 2
Title: Be-Bop High School 2
Character: Kyoko Izumi
Released: August 9, 1986
Type: Movie
Teen thugs Hiroshi and Toru get caught in a street war when their prized school trousers are forcefully taken from them by punks from a rival school.
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Be-Bop High School
Title: Be-Bop High School
Character: Kyoko Izumi
Released: December 14, 1985
Type: Movie
An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.
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Title: Story of a Summer Experience
Character: Sugimoto Yuki
Released: August 20, 1985
Type: TV
Four high school girls from troubled homes are living in a high school dormitory, and decide to go on a summer vacation trip, with some of their teachers. In part, the girls want to meet boys, and possibly to have their first "personal experience" .