It was announced yesterday that actress Nakayama Miho (photo, 33) gave birth to her first child on the 17th of this month in Paris. She and her husband, musician Tsuji Jinsei (43), have named their new son Juto. Nakayama is said to be planning to return to work within the year.
• Veteran actor Nishida Toshiyuki (54) was a first-time winner at this year’s Blue Ribbon movie awards. He won for his lead roles in “Tsuri Baka Nikki 14” (Diary of a Fishing Fool) and “Geroppa” (think of James Brown’s hit Sex Machine to work out the ‘meaning’). You may remember Nishida as Pigsy in the classic TV series Monkey. Other Blue Ribbon winners were actress Terajima Shinobu, who also starred in the Best Film “Akame Shijuyataki Shinjumisui,” and flavor of the month Watanabe Ken, who won a special award for “The Last Samurai.”