Nana Mori
Born: 2001-08-31 in Osaka, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Nana Mori is a Japanese actress known for the earthy naturalism and grounded vulnerability she brings to contemporary independent and mainstream cinema. Discovered in her home prefecture of Oita at age 15, she bypassed traditional idol career tracks in favor of selective collaborations with prominent Japanese auteurs. She gained widespread international recognition in 2019 for her voice acting breakthrough as Hina Amano in Makoto Shinkai’s climate-anxiety anime masterpiece Weathering with You. Recognizing her chameleonic ability to balance youthful innocence with an understated melancholy, legendary filmmaker Shunji Iwai cast her in his 2020 epistolary romance Last Letter. Playing a dual role across fragmented timelines, her performance earned her the Newcomer of the Year award at the 44th Japan Academy Film Prize. In the 2023 series The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, Mori shines as Kiyo, a aspiring maiko who finds her true calling as a house cook. Her performance is the series’ emotional core, anchoring Hirokazu Kore-eda’s culinary world with a quiet, unforced warmth that eschews sentimentality for something genuinely lived-in.
Filmography
2026
- BURN as Ju-Ju
- Beasts Clawing at Straws as Shina
- 青い鳥
2025
- Hirayasumi as Natsumi Kobayashi
- Kokuho as Akiko
- 5 Centimeters per Second as Kanae Sumida
- 1st Kiss as Anri Seki
- Frontline - Yokohama Bay
2024
2023
- The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House as Kiyo
- Cinderellas of Midsummer as Natsumi Aoi
- Father of the Milky Way Railroad as Miyazawa Toshi
- Insomniacs After School as Isaki Magari
- The Window of non-REM Winter 2023
2022
- The Window of non-REM
- Duty and Revenge as Sawai Mikako
- Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery as Yurina Kurasaka
2021
- Liar x Liar as Minato Takatsuki
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2021 Fall Special
2020
- Yell
- I Had a Dream of That Girl
- A Warmed Up Love as Kiki Inoue
- Tsukai TV Sukatto Japan
- Pops Loves Kawaii Stuff as Narrator (voice)
- Last Letter as Fuka / Young Yuri
- 461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son as Hiromi Nishina
- Blue, Painful, Fragile as Mizuki Nishiyama
- Little Letter
2019
- Weathering with You as Hina Amano (voice)
- Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom as Runa Horibe
- Tokyo Ghoul 'S' as Yoriko Kosaka
- Hell Girl as Miho Ichikawa
- The First Supper as Miyako in childhood
2018
- Suits as Natsumi Uesugi（上杉 夏美）
- Magic × Warrior MagiMajo Pures! as Machiko Nagata
- Eerie: Invisible Face as Misuzu Nakao
- Weakest Beast as Chiharu Hanai (Young)
2017
- Tokyo Vampire Hotel as Akari