Cast & creator
Mei Nagano
Best known for Burn the House Down, Half Blue Sky, Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
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.
Also known as: 나가노 메이, 永野 芽郁
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television credits
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2009–2025 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (45)
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Burn the House Down
Anzu Murata
2023
Half Blue Sky
Suzume Nireno
2018
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
Sakura Kayano
2019
Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020
Herself - Commentator
2019
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Tsubame Sanjo
2012
News Anchor
Hana Sakikubo
2025
Police in a Pod
Mai Kawai
2021
Daddy Is My Classmate
Sakura Obika
2020
Riding a Unicorn
Sana Narukawa
2022
Love That Makes You Cry
Remi Funakawa
2016
Fugitive Boys
Renko Aokawa
2017
The Gift of Your Heart
Ame Aihara
2024
Cells at Work!
Red Blood Cell / AE-3803
2024
The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]
2014
Voice Love
Yoshioka Yuiko
2016
Creator's File: GOLD
2021
NiNoKuni
Asha / Kotona (voice)
2019
Platonic
Sari Mochizuki
2014
Teddy Go!
Amano An
2015
Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai
2017
Hell's Garden
Naoko Tanaka
2021
Mom, Is That You?!
Kanzaki Mai
2023
Peach Girl
Sae Kashiwagi
2017
Teasing Master Takagi-san
Takagi-san
2024
Asaichi
Herself
2010
You Shine in the Moonlight
Mamizu Watarase
2019
My Broken Mariko
Tomoyo Shiino
2022
It's a Flickering Life
Yoshiko – Young
2021
Mixed Doubles
Airi Ogasawara
2017
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey
Akiko
2025
And So the Baton Is Passed
Yuko Morimiya
2021
Parks
Haru
2017
My Love Story!!
Rinko Yamato
2015
Motherhood
Sayaka
2022
Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High
Mimiko Shiratori
2017
A Stitch of Life
Mari
2015
Daytime Shooting Star
Suzume Yosano
2017
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
Sumire
2010
Brighter Days
Saho Takahashi
2025
Masked Ward
Hitomi Kawasaki
2020
GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX
2014
Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle
2009