
Mei Nagano
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 (44)
MOVIE★ 7.4Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey2025as Akiko
TV★ 7.7News Anchor2025as Hana Sakikubo
MOVIEBrighter Days2025as Saho Takahashi
MOVIE★ 7.7Cells at Work!2024as Red Blood Cell / AE-3803
MOVIE★ 7.2Teasing Master Takagi-san2024as Takagi-san
TV★ 9.5The Gift of Your Heart2024as Ame Aihara
MOVIE★ 6.1Mom, Is That You?!2023as Kanzaki Mai
TV★ 7.1Burn the House Down2023as Anzu Murata
MOVIE★ 7.4Motherhood2022as Sayaka
MOVIE★ 7.0My Broken Mariko2022as Tomoyo Shiino
TV★ 6.6Riding a Unicorn2022as Sana Narukawa
MOVIE★ 6.5And So the Baton Is Passed2021as Yuko Morimiya
TV★ 8.1Police in a Pod2021as Mai Kawai
TV★ 6.5Creator's File: GOLD2021
MOVIE★ 6.8Hell's Garden2021as Naoko Tanaka
MOVIE★ 6.4It's a Flickering Life2021as Yoshiko – Young
TV★ 6.7Daddy Is My Classmate2020as Sakura Obika
MOVIE★ 6.4Masked Ward2020as Hitomi Kawasaki
MOVIE★ 6.6NiNoKuni2019as Asha / Kotona (voice)
TV★ 6.5Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-20202019as Herself - Commentator
MOVIE★ 7.5You Shine in the Moonlight2019as Mamizu Watarase
TV★ 8.0Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom2019as Sakura Kayano
TV★ 7.8Half Blue Sky2018as Suzume Nireno
MOVIE★ 6.5Mixed Doubles2017as Airi Ogasawara
TV★ 7.9Fugitive Boys2017as Renko Aokawa
MOVIE★ 7.0Peach Girl2017as Sae Kashiwagi
MOVIE★ 6.9Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High2017as Mimiko Shiratori
MOVIE★ 6.9Parks2017as Haru
MOVIE★ 7.4Daytime Shooting Star2017as Suzume Yosano
TV★ 6.7Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai2017
TV★ 6.0Voice Love2016as Yoshioka Yuiko
TV★ 8.1Love That Makes You Cry2016as Remi Funakawa
MOVIE★ 7.4My Love Story!!2015as Rinko Yamato
TVTeddy Go!2015as Amano An
MOVIE★ 6.0A Stitch of Life2015as Mari
MOVIE★ 7.0The Man of the Tokyo Olympics2014as Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]
TV★ 6.0Platonic2014as Sari Mochizuki
MOVIE★ 7.5GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX2014
MOVIE★ 7.5Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins2012as Tsubame Sanjo
MOVIEStand Up! Vanguard2012
MOVIE★ 6.0Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City2010as Sumire
TVAsaichi2010as Herself
MOVIE★ 5.7Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle2009- MOVIEMy Crazy Feminist Girlfriend—