About
Mei Nagano
Overview
Mei Nagano is a Japanese actress. She is known for playing Rinko in the film My Love Story! (2015) as well as Yosano Suzume in the film Daytime Shooting Star (2017). In June 2017, she was announced as the lead for NHK's 98th Asadora, Hanbun, Aoi, due air in April 2018.
Nagano was scouted in Kichijouji, Tokyo when she was in her third year of elementary school. She made her acting debut in the 2009 action-adventure film Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle, as a minor character.
In 2015, she played the heroine, Rinko Yamato, in the romantic comedy film, My Love Story! In July 2016, she starred in her first lead role in the teen drama, Koe Koi, as high school student Yuiko Yoshioka, who meets a mysterious boy who wears a paper bag over his head. In September, she starred in the Japanese version of the film Gods of Egypt. She provided the voice for the character Zaya. She also appeared in commercials for Calpis Water, Sekisui House, Townwork, UQ Mobile, and Alpen. In 2017, she starred in the romance film, Daytime Shooting Star.
Nagano was a regular model for Japanese fashion magazines Nico☆Petite and nicola. In August 2016, she became an exclusive model for Seventeen.
Known for
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2025 | Kakukaku Shikajika | Actor | Akiko | N/A N/A |
2025 | Brighter Days | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2025 | Brighter Days | Actor | Sae Yukino / Saho Takahashi | N/A N/A |
2025 | Brighter Days | Actor | Saho Takahashi | N/A N/A |
2024 | Cells at Work! | Actor | Red Blood Cell | 58 Average |
2024 | Teasing Master Takagi-san | Actor | Takagi-san | 59 Average |
2024 | The Gift of Your Heart | Actor | Ame Aihara | 70 Good |
2023 | Mom, Is That You?! | Actor | Kanzaki Mai | 58 Average |
2023 | Burn the House Down | Actor | Anzu Murata | 71 Good |
2022 | Motherhood | Actor | Daughter | 59 Average |
2022 | My Broken Mariko | Actor | Tomoyo Shiino | 59 Average |
2022 | Riding a Unicorn | Actor | Sana Narukawa | 69 Fair |
2021 | And So the Baton Is Passed | Actor | Yuko Morimiya | 58 Average |
2021 | Police in a Pod | Actor | Mai Kawai(川合 麻依) | 72 Good |
2021 | Hell's Garden | Actor | Naoko Tanaka | 59 Average |
2021 | It's a Flickering Life | Actor | Yoshiko – Young | 59 Average |
2020 | Daddy Is My Classmate | Actor | Sakura Obika | 68 Fair |
2020 | Masked Ward | Actor | Hitomi Kawasaki | 59 Average |
2019 | NiNoKuni | Actor | Asha / Kotona (voice) | 60 Fair |
2019 | You Shine in the Moonlight | Actor | Mamizu Watarase | 59 Average |
2019 | Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom | Actor | Sakura Kayano | 73 Good |
2018 | Half Blue Sky | Actor | Suzume Nireno | 70 Good |
2017 | Mixed Doubles | Actor | Airi Ogasawara | 59 Average |
2017 | Fugitive Boys | Actor | Renko Aokawa | 70 Good |
2017 | Peach Girl | Actor | Sae Kashiwagi | 59 Average |
2017 | Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High | Actor | Mimiko Shiratori | 59 Average |
2017 | Parks | Actor | Haru | 58 Average |
2017 | Daytime Shooting Star | Actor | Suzume Yosano | 61 Fair |
2016 | Voice Love | Actor | Yoshioka Yuiko | 69 Fair |
2016 | Love That Makes You Cry | Actor | Remi Funakawa | 70 Good |
2015 | My Love Story!! | Actor | Rinko Yamato | 60 Fair |
2015 | Teddy Go! | Actor | Amano An | N/A N/A |
2015 | A Stitch of Life | Actor | Mari | 58 Average |
2014 | The Man of the Tokyo Olympics | Actor | Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager] | 59 Average |
2014 | Platonic | Actor | Sari Mochizuki | 69 Fair |
2014 | GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX | Actor | 59 Average |
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2012 | Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins | Actor | Tsubame Sanjo | 68 Fair |
2010 | Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City | Actor | Sumire | 58 Average |
2009 | Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle | Actor | 58 Average |