Mayumi Nagisa

Born in Tokyo in 1944, Mayumi Nagisa came up in the thick of postwar Japan — that era when the whole country was rebuilding itself and the entertainment world was finding its footing right along with it. What strikes me is that she pulled double duty as both an actor and a singer, which sounds unremarkable now but for her generation took real range and guts. Most people locked into one lane and stayed there; she didn't. I don't have a deep dossier of her specific credits, but you don't survive and work in that industry across that period without having something genuine — a quiet, grounded presence that outlasts any single headline. This is the kind of career that doesn't make noise — it just endures.

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Mayumi Nagisa is a Japanese actress and singer born on October 10, 1944, in Tokyo, Japan. Active across both performance and music, she represents a generation of multidisciplinary entertainers who built careers spanning acting and song during Japan's postwar decades. She debuted in 1961 in the film Yūyake Koyake no Akatombo as a new star for Daiei, and her stage name was given by composer Kosaku Yamada.

Name (English)

Mayumi Nagisa

Name (Japanese)

渚まゆみ

Reading

なぎさ まゆみ

Born

October 10, 1944 (age 82)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Actress / Singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

Blood type

A

Active years

1961 - present

Works summary

Appearances

132 (1961–2020)

By year (titles with a known year)

1961: 3, 1962: 1, 1963: 2, 1964: 3, 1965: 3, 1966: 4, 1967: 9, 1968: 16, 1969: 8, 1970: 10, 1971: 11, 1972: 10, 1973: 6, 1974: 6, 1982: 4, 1983: 3, 1985: 2, 1997: 1, 1999: 4, 2000: 3, 2001: 1, 2002: 1, 2005: 1, 2006: 1, 2015: 1, 2020: 1, year unknown: 17

Debut work

お嬢さん

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%9A%E3%81%BE%E3%82%86%E3%81%BF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11561839

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Actress
• Singer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.