Mei Nagano

Born: 1999-09-24 in Tokyo, Japan

Known For: Acting

Biography

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.

Filmography

2025

News Anchor as Hana Sakikubo
Brighter Days as Saho Takahashi
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey as Akiko

2024

The Gift of Your Heart as Ame Aihara
Cells at Work! as Red Blood Cell / AE-3803
Teasing Master Takagi-san as Takagi-san

2023

Burn the House Down as Anzu Murata
Mom, Is That You?! as Kanzaki Mai

2022

Riding a Unicorn as Sana Narukawa
My Broken Mariko as Tomoyo Shiino
Motherhood as Sayaka

2021

Police in a Pod as Mai Kawai
Creator's File: GOLD
It's a Flickering Life as Yoshiko – Young
Hell's Garden as Naoko Tanaka
And So the Baton Is Passed as Yuko Morimiya

2020

Daddy Is My Classmate as Sakura Obika
Masked Ward as Hitomi Kawasaki

2019

Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom as Sakura Kayano
Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020 as Herself - Commentator
NiNoKuni as Asha / Kotona (voice)
You Shine in the Moonlight as Mamizu Watarase

2018

Half Blue Sky as Suzume Nireno

2017

Fugitive Boys as Renko Aokawa
Mixed Doubles as Airi Ogasawara
Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai
Peach Girl as Sae Kashiwagi
Daytime Shooting Star as Suzume Yosano
Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High as Mimiko Shiratori
Parks as Haru

2016

Love That Makes You Cry as Remi Funakawa
Voice Love as Yoshioka Yuiko

2015

Teddy Go! as Amano An
My Love Story!! as Rinko Yamato
A Stitch of Life as Mari

2014

Platonic as Sari Mochizuki
The Man of the Tokyo Olympics as Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]
GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX