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Mei Nagano
Tokyo, Japan
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,…
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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.
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2025
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey
Movie Akiko
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2025
News Anchor
TV show Hana Sakikubo
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2025
Brighter Days
Movie Saho Takahashi
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2024
Cells at Work!
Movie Red Blood Cell / AE-3803
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2024
Teasing Master Takagi-san
Movie Takagi-san
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2024
The Gift of Your Heart
TV show Ame Aihara
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2023
Mom, Is That You?!
Movie Kanzaki Mai
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2023
Burn the House Down
TV show Anzu Murata
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2022
Motherhood
Movie Sayaka
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2022
My Broken Mariko
Movie Tomoyo Shiino
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2022
Riding a Unicorn
TV show Sana Narukawa
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2021
And So the Baton Is Passed
Movie Yuko Morimiya
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2021
Police in a Pod
TV show Mai Kawai
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2021
Creator's File: GOLD
TV show
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2021
Hell's Garden
Movie Naoko Tanaka
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2021
It's a Flickering Life
Movie Yoshiko – Young
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2020
Daddy Is My Classmate
TV show Sakura Obika
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2020
Masked Ward
Movie Hitomi Kawasaki
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2019
NiNoKuni
Movie Asha / Kotona (voice)
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2019
Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020
TV show Herself - Commentator
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2019
You Shine in the Moonlight
Movie Mamizu Watarase
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2019
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
TV show Sakura Kayano
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2018
Half Blue Sky
TV show Suzume Nireno
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2017
Mixed Doubles
Movie Airi Ogasawara
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2017
Fugitive Boys
TV show Renko Aokawa
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2017
Peach Girl
Movie Sae Kashiwagi
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2017
Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High
Movie Mimiko Shiratori
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2017
Parks
Movie Haru
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2017
Daytime Shooting Star
Movie Suzume Yosano
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2017
Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai
TV show
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2016
Voice Love
TV show Yoshioka Yuiko
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2016
Love That Makes You Cry
TV show Remi Funakawa
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2015
My Love Story!!
Movie Rinko Yamato
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2015
Teddy Go!
TV show Amano An
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2015
A Stitch of Life
Movie Mari
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2014
The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
Movie Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]
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2014
Platonic
TV show Sari Mochizuki
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2014
GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX
Movie
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2012
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Movie Tsubame Sanjo
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2012
Stand Up! Vanguard
Movie
