Miho Nakayama

 is a Japanese singer and actress.
Biography.
History.
Nakayama was born in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. She made her debut on 21 June 1985. She also starred in a Famicom Disk System dating sim made by Nintendo titled "Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School", in which she played a high school student trying to mask her true identity. Her younger sister is Shinobu Nakayama, who is also an actress and former pop singer.
In 1995, director Shunji Iwai cast Miho 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 Miho won Best Actress awards for her role in the film at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards, the 17th Yokohama Film Festival and the 18th Hochi Film Awards.
She 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).
Personal life.
She had been signed to the same Box Corporation and before debut, became friends with Yasuko Endō. Two years after Endō's suicide, Nakayama performed song called "Long Distance Tengoku He" during concert tour 1988. As a homage to the title of Endō's cancelled debut single "In the Distance", it was held as a requiem for her. Nakayama wrote the lyrics and composed the song herself. The song title changed to "Long Distance To The Heaven", and it was included on album Mind Game, released July that year. Nakayama touched about this song in essay collection P.S. I LOVE YOU released 1991. Also in 2009 collection "Nazenara Yasashii Machi ga Atta Kara", Endō is written about with name excluded.
She married Hitonari Tsuji in 2002 and divorced in 2014. She had lived in Paris during marriage. However, after she divorced, she went back to Japan.