
Acting
Born September 24, 1999 · Tokyo, Japan
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.

Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey
2025

Brighter Days
2025

Cells at Work!
2024

Teasing Master Takagi-san
2024

Mom, Is That You?!
2023

Motherhood
2022

My Broken Mariko
2022

And So the Baton Is Passed
2021

Hell's Garden
2021

It's a Flickering Life
2021

Masked Ward
2020

NiNoKuni
2019

You Shine in the Moonlight
2019

Mixed Doubles
2017

Peach Girl
2017

Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High
2017

Parks
2017

Daytime Shooting Star
2017

My Love Story!!
2015

A Stitch of Life
2015

The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
2014

GACHI-BAN: ULTRA MAX
2014

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
2012

Stand Up! Vanguard
2012

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
2010

Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle
2009