Mei Nagano
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.
Known For
Burn the House Down
Half Blue Sky
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Police in a Pod
Daddy Is My Classmate
Love That Makes You Cry
News Anchor
All Movies (27)
- Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey2025 · as Akiko
- Brighter Days2025 · as Saho Takahashi
- Cells at Work!2024 · as Red Blood Cell / AE-3803
- Teasing Master Takagi-san2024 · as Takagi-san
- Mom, Is That You?!2023 · as Kanzaki Mai
- Motherhood2022 · as Sayaka
- My Broken Mariko2022 · as Tomoyo Shiino
- And So the Baton Is Passed2021 · as Yuko Morimiya
- Hell's Garden2021 · as Naoko Tanaka
- It's a Flickering Life2021 · as Yoshiko – Young
- Masked Ward2020 · as Hitomi Kawasaki
- NiNoKuni2019 · as Asha / Kotona (voice)
- You Shine in the Moonlight2019 · as Mamizu Watarase
- Mixed Doubles2017 · as Airi Ogasawara
- Peach Girl2017 · as Sae Kashiwagi
- Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High2017 · as Mimiko Shiratori
- Parks2017 · as Haru
- Daytime Shooting Star2017 · as Suzume Yosano
- My Love Story!!2015 · as Rinko Yamato
- A Stitch of Life2015 · as Mari
- The Man of the Tokyo Olympics2014 · as Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]
- GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX2014
- Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins2012 · as Tsubame Sanjo
- Stand Up! Vanguard2012
- Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City2010 · as Sumire
- Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle2009
- My Crazy Feminist Girlfriend—
All TV Shows (17)
- News Anchor2025 · as Hana Sakikubo
- The Gift of Your Heart2024 · as Ame Aihara
- Burn the House Down2023 · as Anzu Murata
- Riding a Unicorn2022 · as Sana Narukawa
- Police in a Pod2021 · as Mai Kawai
- Creator's File: GOLD2021
- Daddy Is My Classmate2020 · as Sakura Obika
- Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-20202019 · as Herself - Commentator
- Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom2019 · as Sakura Kayano
- Half Blue Sky2018 · as Suzume Nireno
- Fugitive Boys2017 · as Renko Aokawa
- Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai2017
- Voice Love2016 · as Yoshioka Yuiko
- Love That Makes You Cry2016 · as Remi Funakawa
- Teddy Go!2015 · as Amano An
- Platonic2014 · as Sari Mochizuki
- Asaichi2010 · as Herself