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
- Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey as Akiko
- Brighter Days as Saho Takahashi
2024
- Cells at Work! as Red Blood Cell
- Teasing Master Takagi-san as Takagi-san
- The Gift of Your Heart as Ame Aihara
2023
- Burn the House Down as Anzu Murata
- Mom, Is That You?! as Kanzaki Mai
2022
- My Broken Mariko as Tomoyo Shiino
- Motherhood as Daughter
- Riding a Unicorn as Sana Narukawa
2021
- Hell's Garden as Naoko Tanaka
- Police in a Pod as Mai Kawai
- It's a Flickering Life as Yoshiko – Young
- And So the Baton Is Passed as Yuko Morimiya
- Creator's File: GOLD
2020
- Daddy Is My Classmate as Sakura Obika
- Masked Ward as Hitomi Kawasaki
2019
- Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom as Sakura Kayano
- NiNoKuni as Asha / Kotona (voice)
- Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020 as Herself - Commentator
- You Shine in the Moonlight as Mamizu Watarase
2018
- Half Blue Sky as Suzume Nireno
2017
- Parks as Haru
- Peach Girl as Sae Kashiwagi
- Daytime Shooting Star as Suzume Yosano
- Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High as Mimiko Shiratori
- Mixed Doubles as Airi Ogasawara
- Fugitive Boys as Renko Aokawa
- Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai
2016
- Love That Makes You Cry as Remi Funakawa
- Voice Love as Yoshioka Yuiko
2015
- My Love Story!! as Rinko Yamato
- A Stitch of Life as Mari
- Teddy Go! as Amano An
2014
- GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX
- The Man of the Tokyo Olympics as Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]
- Platonic as Sari Mochizuki
2012
- Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins as Tsubame Sanjo
- Stand Up! Vanguard
2010
- Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City as Sumire
- Asaichi as Herself