Chigusa Nagayo

Acting

Chigusa Nagayo

Born

1964-12-08 (61)

Place of birth

Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Chigusa Nagayo (born December 8, 1964) is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for her time in Japanese promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) during the 1980s. She was one-half of the Crush Gals tag team, with partner Lioness Asuka, and achieved massive mainstream popularity before her first retirement in 1989. In 1995, she founded GAEA Japan, and in 2014, created its successor Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling, which she still operates. Nagayo is often regarded as the most popular female wrestler of all time, as well as being one of the greatest and most influential.

Known for

World Wonder Ring Stardom poster
8.8

Stardom World is the VOD network for World Wonder Ring Stardom. WWR Stardom is a Japanese women's promotion started in 2011 featuring matches of many varieties including high speed octane action, long brutal brawls, and even costume battle royals. In 2019, the promotion was acquired by Bushiroad and has since become one of the top wrestling promotions in Japan.

World Wonder Ring Stardom

2011

Onihei Hankachō poster
7.8

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

Onihei Hankachō

1989

Giri/Haji poster
7.4

Family duty sends a lawman to London to look for his mob-assassin brother as a yakuza war threatens to engulf Tokyo. Trust is even tougher to find.

Giri/Haji

2019

Sunny poster
6.6

The life of an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As consolation, she's given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband's electronics company.

Sunny

2024

AJW Classics poster
NR

AJW Classics features a collection of matches from the history of All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling that was broadcast monthly on Samurai! TV. You will see matches from AJW stars such as Jaguar Yokota, Devil Masami, Aja Kong, Bull Nakano, Dump Masumoto and Manami Toyota. You also will get to see tag teams like The Crush Gals, Jumping Bomb Angels, Fire Jets & Marine Wolf.

AJW Classics

2007

NOAH Monday Magic poster
NR

Monday Magic is a Japanese professional wrestling streaming television series produced by CyberFight and Pro Wrestling NOAH, airing on their Wrestle Universe platform.

NOAH Monday Magic

2023

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

1990s · 8 titles

FMW 7th Anniversary Show poster
NR

FMW Kawasaki Stadium 7th Anniversary

FMW 7th Anniversary Show

1996

FMW Yamato Nadeshiko III poster
NR

Singles Match Misae Watanabe vs. Aki Kambayashi Singles Match Chikayo Nagashima vs. Miwa Sato Tag Team Match Bolshoi Kid & Saburo vs. Chihiro Nakano & Yukie Nabeno Singles Match Mima Shimoda vs. Bad Nurse Nakamura Tag Team Match Crusher Maedomari & Shark Tsuchiya vs. Kaori Nakayama & Yukari Ishikura Tag Team Match Chigusa Nagayo & Combat Toyoda vs. KAORU & Megumi Kudo

FMW Yamato Nadeshiko III

1996

AJW All-Star Dream Slam I poster
9.0

In celebration of its 25th anniversary as a promotion, All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling (AJW) invited women from JWP, LLPW, and FMW to compete in a night full of inter-promotional battles to the chorus of 16,500 fans inside the Yokohama Arena.

AJW All-Star Dream Slam I

1993

FMW Yamato Nadeshiko II poster
NR

Tag Team Match Aki Kambayashi & Sonoko Kato vs. Chihiro Nakano & Chikayo Nagashima Singles Match Miwa Sato vs. Bomber Hikari Tag Team Match Kaori Nakayama & Yukari Ishikura vs. Hiromi Sugo & Kanako Motoya Singles Match Chigusa Nagayo vs. Bad Nurse Nakamura Singles Match Combat Toyoda vs. KAORU No Ropes Barbed Wire Death Match Megumi Kudo vs. Shark Tsuchiya

FMW Yamato Nadeshiko II

1995

Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears

1993

AJW Big Egg Wrestling Universe poster
9.0

The Big Egg Wrestling Universe was a professional wrestling event held by All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling (AJW) inside the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on November 20, 1994 and was attended by 32,500 fans. However, some sources claim the event was attended by over 42,000 fans. The event featured representatives from joshi promotions GAEA Japan (GAEA), JWP Joshi Puroresu (JWP) and Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling (LLPW), as well as puroresu promotions Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (MPW) and American wrestling promotion the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). In addition to female wrestlers, the event also featured matches with male wrestlers, midget wrestling, female amateur wrestlers, female kickboxers and female shootboxers. The event lasted lasted ten hours and was promoted as the biggest card in the history of women’s wrestling, featuring 23 matches of various styles.

AJW Big Egg Wrestling Universe

1994

No artwork available
NR

Debut GAEA show

GAEA MEMORIAL FIRST GONG IN KORAKUEN

1995

No artwork available
NR

NEO ENERGY QUEEN HISTORY '95 League Match: Toshie Sato vs. Chihiro Nakano NEO ENERGY QUEEN HISTORY '95 League Match: Meiko Satomura vs. Makie Numao Sonoko Kato vs. Bomber Hikaru ATTACK 3: KAORU & Hikari Fukuoka vs. Chikayo Nagashima & Toshie Uematsu Sakie Hasegawa Single Countdown Special: Sakie Hasegawa vs. Chigusa Nagayo

GAEA TOO HOT! IN KORAKUEN Single Countdown Special Chigusa Nagayo vs. Sakie Hasegawa

1996

1980s · 5 titles

Series credits

World Wonder Ring Stardom poster
8.8

Stardom World is the VOD network for World Wonder Ring Stardom. WWR Stardom is a Japanese women's promotion started in 2011 featuring matches of many varieties including high speed octane action, long brutal brawls, and even costume battle royals. In 2019, the promotion was acquired by Bushiroad and has since become one of the top wrestling promotions in Japan.

World Wonder Ring Stardom

2011

Onihei Hankachō poster
7.8

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

Onihei Hankachō

1989

Giri/Haji poster
7.4

Family duty sends a lawman to London to look for his mob-assassin brother as a yakuza war threatens to engulf Tokyo. Trust is even tougher to find.

Giri/Haji

2019

Sunny poster
6.6

The life of an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As consolation, she's given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband's electronics company.

Sunny

2024

AJW Classics poster
NR

AJW Classics features a collection of matches from the history of All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling that was broadcast monthly on Samurai! TV. You will see matches from AJW stars such as Jaguar Yokota, Devil Masami, Aja Kong, Bull Nakano, Dump Masumoto and Manami Toyota. You also will get to see tag teams like The Crush Gals, Jumping Bomb Angels, Fire Jets & Marine Wolf.

AJW Classics

2007

NOAH Monday Magic poster
NR

Monday Magic is a Japanese professional wrestling streaming television series produced by CyberFight and Pro Wrestling NOAH, airing on their Wrestle Universe platform.

NOAH Monday Magic

2023

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

GAEA Champ Forum

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Behind the camera