Mei Nagano
- Child actor
- Teen actor
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.
Acted in
Kakukaku Shikajika
2025
as Akiko
Brighter Days
2025
as Saho Takahashi
Cells at Work!
2024
as Red Blood Cell
Teasing Master Takagi-san
2024
as Takagi-san
The Gift of Your Heart
2024
as Ame Aihara
Mom, Is That You?!
2023
as Kanzaki Mai
Burn the House Down
2023
as Anzu Murata
Motherhood
2022
as Daughter
My Broken Mariko
2022
as Tomoyo Shiino
Riding a Unicorn
2022
as Sana Narukawa
And So the Baton Is Passed
2021
as Yuko Morimiya
Police in a Pod
2021
as Mai Kawai（川合 麻依）
Creator's File: GOLD
2021
Hell's Garden
2021
as Naoko Tanaka
It's a Flickering Life
2021
as Yoshiko – Young
Daddy Is My Classmate
2020
as Sakura Obika
Masked Ward
2020
as Hitomi Kawasaki
NiNoKuni
2019
as Asha / Kotona (voice)
Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020
2019
as Herself - Commentator
You Shine in the Moonlight
2019
as Mamizu Watarase
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
2019
as Sakura Kayano
Half Blue Sky
2018
as Suzume Nireno
Mixed Doubles
2017
as Airi Ogasawara
Fugitive Boys
2017
as Renko Aokawa
Peach Girl
2017
as Sae Kashiwagi
Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High
2017
as Mimiko Shiratori
Parks
2017
as Haru
Daytime Shooting Star
2017
as Suzume Yosano
Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai
2017
Voice Love
2016
as Yoshioka Yuiko
Love That Makes You Cry
2016
as Remi Funakawa
My Love Story!!
2015
as Rinko Yamato
Teddy Go!
2015
as Amano An
A Stitch of Life
2015
as Mari
The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
2014
as Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]
Platonic
2014
as Sari Mochizuki
GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX
2014
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
2012
as Tsubame Sanjo
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
2010
as Sumire
Asaichi
2010
as Herself
Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle
2009