
Mei Nagano
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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.
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)
as Tsubame Sanjo

Cells at Work! (2024)
as Red Blood Cell / AE-3803

NiNoKuni (2019)
as Asha / Kotona (voice)

Daytime Shooting Star (2017)
as Suzume Yosano

Peach Girl (2017)
as Sae Kashiwagi

Motherhood (2022)
as Sayaka

Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey (2025)
as Akiko

It's a Flickering Life (2021)
as Yoshiko – Young

Teasing Master Takagi-san (2024)
as Takagi-san

Mixed Doubles (2017)
as Airi Ogasawara

And So the Baton Is Passed (2021)
as Yuko Morimiya

My Love Story!! (2015)
as Rinko Yamato

Hell's Garden (2021)
as Naoko Tanaka

A Stitch of Life (2015)
as Mari

My Broken Mariko (2022)
as Tomoyo Shiino

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010)
as Sumire

Mom, Is That You?! (2023)
as Kanzaki Mai

You Shine in the Moonlight (2019)
as Mamizu Watarase

Masked Ward (2020)
as Hitomi Kawasaki

Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High (2017)
as Mimiko Shiratori

Brighter Days (2025)
as Saho Takahashi

Parks (2017)
as Haru

The Man of the Tokyo Olympics (2014)
as Grace Miyako Wada [Teenager]

Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle (2009)
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GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX (2014)
Actor

Stand Up! Vanguard (2012)
Actor
My Crazy Feminist Girlfriend (—)
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