Mei Nagano
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.
Mom, Is That You?!
as Kanzaki MaiAkio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make...
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
as Tsubame SanjoIn 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an...
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NiNoKuni
as Asha / Kotona (voice)Adapted from the video game series of the same name, NiNoKuni follows high school peers Yuu and...
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Daytime Shooting Star
as Suzume YosanoFifteen-year-old country girl Suzume Yosano has to move to Tokyo to live with her uncle due to...
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Cells at Work!
as Red Blood CellThe smallest protagonist in film history - a human cell! There are a staggering 37 trillion...
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My Broken Mariko
as Tomoyo ShiinoShiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching...
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Peach Girl
as Sae KashiwagiWhile everyone thinks that Momo is a wild party girl, the reality is that she is shy and lonely....
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My Love Story!!
as Rinko YamatoTakeo Goda is a high school student 2 m tall and weighting more than 100 kg. He has a righteous...
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Hell's Garden
as Naoko TanakaNaoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady (OL). Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce...
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Teasing Master Takagi-san
as Takagi-sanTakagi, now grown up, revisits her middle school as a trainer. She encounters Nishikata, her...
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Mixed Doubles
as Airi OgasawaraTo get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a...
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Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
as uncreditedZebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of...
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And So the Baton Is Passed
as Yuko MorimiyaYuko Morimiya is a high school student and she lives with her stepfather Morimiya. Morimiya is...
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Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High
as Mimiko ShiratoriTeiichi Akaba is a student at a prestigious private male high school known for producing...
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Masked Ward
as Hitomi KawasakiOn-call substitute doctor Shugo suddenly finds himself faced with a terrifying criminal in a...
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Parks
as HaruJun is a university student. She meets high school student Haru. Haru is looking for Sachiko,...
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You Shine in the Moonlight
as Mamizu WataraseTakuya Okada (Takumi Kitamura) is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase...
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Motherhood
as DaughterSayaka, a high school student, kills herself but the reason behind her suicide is unknown. She...
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It's a Flickering Life
as Yoshiko – YoungThe story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of...
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A Stitch of Life
as MariIchie is the owner of a dressmaking shop. Her grandmother started the shop and now Ichie runs...
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Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle
as uncreditedThe story starts in the devastated rogue city of Yokohama, surrounded by rubble. After Milly...
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GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX
as uncreditedAfter failing to enroll at night school, Hayato has somehow found a new job as a bouncer. During...
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The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
as Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]After the end of the second world war, Fred Wada Isamu (Osawa), an American of Japanese descent...
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Half Blue Sky
as Suzume NirenoSuzume is a girl born to a family running a small restaurant in Gifu Prefecture. She loses her...
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Burn the House Down
as Anzu MurataAfter her mother took the blame for a tragic fire 13 years ago, Anzu plots revenge by working as...
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Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
as Sakura KayanoWith graduation 10 days away, homeroom teacher Hiiragi gathered all 29 students of class 3-A and...
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Police in a Pod
as Mai Kawai（川合 麻依）20-year-old rookie police officer Kawai Mai works hard at a police box and feels both physically...
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Love That Makes You Cry
as Remi FunakawaFollows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from...
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Riding a Unicorn
as Sana NarukawaDetermined to revive her startup's dwindling success, an innovative young CEO hires a...
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Fugitive Boys
as Renko AokawaTobio Masubuchi and his friends are ordinary high school students. Due to an incident, their...
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The Gift of Your Heart
as Ame AiharaWhen Aihara Ame was a high school student in Nagasaki, she wasn’t confident in herself due to...
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Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020
as Herself - CommentatorSix strangers share a fabulous house in Tokyo, looking for love while living under the same...
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Voice Love
as Yoshioka YuikoYoshioka Yuiko begins the first grade in high school. She gets sick with the cold and stays in...
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Daddy Is My Classmate
as Sakura ObikaAuthor Tarō Obika is an obsessed single father who loves his daughter so much, he decides to go...
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Creator's File: GOLD
as uncreditedComedian Ryuji Akiyama satirizes top "creators" in Japan with a deadpan, unerring eye for humor,...
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Teddy Go!
as Amano AnKazuko Yamase is a 23-year-old, broken-hearted freeter. One day, she sees a knitted teddy bear...
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Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai
as uncredited52-year-old Saenai is an ordinary middle management salaryman. One day, he is forcibly handed a...
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Asaichi
as HerselfAsaichi (あさイチ) is a Japanese weekday morning talk program airing on NHK General TV, hosted by...
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