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Nana Mori
Osaka, Japan
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 pre…
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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.
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2026
ROCK PAPER LANDMINE
TV show
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2026
Beasts Clutching at Straws
Movie Shina
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2026
OPTI
Movie
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2026
BURN
Movie Ju-Ju
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2026
Abiding
Movie
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2025
Hirayasumi
TV show Natsumi Kobayashi
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2025
5 Centimeters per Second
Movie Kanae Sumida
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2025
Frontline - Yokohama Bay
Movie
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2025
Kokuho
Movie Akiko
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2025
Golden SixTONES
TV show Self
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2025
1st Kiss
Movie Anri Seki
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2024
Hen na koe
Movie
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2024
At the Bench
Movie
- 2024
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2024
April, Come She Will
Movie Haru Iyoda
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2024
The Parades
Movie Nana
More credits
- 2023
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2023
Cinderellas of Midsummer
TV show Natsumi Aoi
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2023
Insomniacs After School
Movie Isaki Magari
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2023
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
Movie Miyazawa Toshi
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2023
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
TV show Kiyo
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2022
Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery
Movie Yurina Kurasaka
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2022
The Window of non-REM
TV show
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2022
Duty and Revenge
TV show Sawai Mikako
- 2021
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2021
Liar x Liar
Movie Minato Takatsuki
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2020
461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
Movie Hiromi Nishina
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2020
A Warmed Up Love
TV show Kiki Inoue
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2020
I Had a Dream of That Girl
TV show
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2020
Blue, Painful, Fragile
Movie Mizuki Nishiyama
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2020
Pops Loves Kawaii Stuff
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2020
Tsukai TV Sukatto Japan
TV show
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2020
Yell
TV show
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2020
Last Letter
Movie Fuka / Young Yuri
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2020
Little Letter
Movie
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2019
Hell Girl
Movie Miho Ichikawa
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2019
The First Supper
Movie Miyako in childhood
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2019
Weathering with You
Movie Hina Amano (voice)
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2019
Tokyo Ghoul 'S'
Movie Yoriko Kosaka
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2019
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
TV show Runa Horibe
