Nana Mori

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.

Known For

Yell

Suits

Tokyo Vampire Hotel

Weathering with You

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House

Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom

The Window of non-REM

I Had a Dream of That Girl

All Movies (26)

• Beasts Clawing at Straws2026 · as Shina
• BURN2026 · as Ju-Ju
• 青い鳥2026
• 5 Centimeters per Second2025 · as Kanae Sumida
• Frontline - Yokohama Bay2025
• Kokuho2025 · as Akiko
• 1st Kiss2025 · as Anri Seki
• Hen na koe2024
• At the Bench2024
• Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 25 Shuunen Tokubetsu-hen2024
• April, Come She Will2024 · as Haru Iyoda
• The Parades2024 · as Nana
• The Window of non-REM Winter 20232023
• Insomniacs After School2023 · as Isaki Magari
• Father of the Milky Way Railroad2023 · as Miyazawa Toshi
• Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery2022 · as Yurina Kurasaka
• Tales of the Bizarre: 2021 Fall Special2021
• Liar x Liar2021 · as Minato Takatsuki
• 461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son2020 · as Hiromi Nishina
• Blue, Painful, Fragile2020 · as Mizuki Nishiyama
• Last Letter2020 · as Fuka / Young Yuri
• Little Letter2020
• Hell Girl2019 · as Miho Ichikawa
• The First Supper2019 · as Miyako in childhood
• Weathering with You2019 · as Hina Amano (voice)
• Tokyo Ghoul 'S'2019 · as Yoriko Kosaka

All TV Shows (16)

• Hirayasumi2025 · as Natsumi Kobayashi
• Cinderellas of Midsummer2023 · as Natsumi Aoi
• The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House2023 · as Kiyo
• The Window of non-REM2022
• Duty and Revenge2022 · as Sawai Mikako
• A Warmed Up Love2020 · as Kiki Inoue
• I Had a Dream of That Girl2020
• Pops Loves Kawaii Stuff2020 · as Narrator (voice)
• Tsukai TV Sukatto Japan2020
• Yell2020
• Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom2019 · as Runa Horibe
• Weakest Beast2018 · as Chiharu Hanai (Young)
• Suits2018 · as Natsumi Uesugi（上杉 夏美）
• Eerie: Invisible Face2018 · as Misuzu Nakao
• Magic × Warrior MagiMajo Pures!2018 · as Machiko Nagata
• Tokyo Vampire Hotel2017 · as Akari