Hideyuki Nakayama

Hideyuki Nakayama occupies a job that barely translates outside Japan. He is a tarento — a broadcast host who anchors variety shows — and he started out as a comedian before drifting into that role. To me that shift is the interesting part: he gave up being the funny one and became the man who makes everybody else look funny, which is far harder and gets far less credit. Decades in, the whole country still calls him Hide-chan, and a nickname that survives that long says something about how easy he is to have in the room. He came out of Fujioka in Gunma Prefecture and finished high school in Kanagawa, which reads to me like someone who left home early to chase the work. He has lasted on stamina rather than flash.

Name (English)

Hideyuki Nakayama

Name (Japanese)

中山秀征

Born

July 31, 1967 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

Origin

Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Height

175 cm

Occupation

actor / tarento

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://nakayamahideyuki.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hidechan0731/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%B1%B1%E7%A7%80%E5%BE%81

Tags

• Gunma Prefecture
• actor
• tarento

Last updated

2026-07-26

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.