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Hanbun, Aoi is a Japanese television drama series and the 98th Asadora series, following ''Warotenka''. It premiered on April 2, 2018, and concluded on September 29, 2018. Mei Nagano was cast in the lead role of Suzume Nireno after an audition of 2366 wome ...

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Early life and career

Mei Nagano was born in

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, Tokyo on September 24, 1999. Her family consists of her mother, father, and an elder brother three years her senior. Nagano was scouted in

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when she was in her third year of elementary school. She made her acting debut in the 2009

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''Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle'' as a minor character. Nagano was a regular model for Japanese

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'' Nico☆Petite'' and '' nicola''. In August 2016 she became an exclusive model for '' Seventeen''. In 2015 she played the heroine, Rinko Yamato, in the

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film '' My Love Story!''. Her first lead role came in the 2016

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''Koe Koi'' as Yuiko Yoshioka, a high school student who meets a mysterious boy who wears a paper bag over his head. Later that year she provided the voice for the character Zaya in the Japanese version of the film '' Gods of Egypt''. She also appeared in commercials for Calpis Water,

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, Townwork, UQ Mobile, and Alpen. In 2017 she starred in the

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'' Daytime Shooting Star'' and was announced as the lead for

's 98th

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, ''

'', which started airing in April 2018. For her lead role in this

, Nagano was named the Best Actress at the 98th Japan Television Drama Academy Awards. In 2019, Nagano acted alongside Masaki Suda in the drama ''Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom'', and was named Best Supporting Actress at the 100th Japan Television Drama Academy Awards for her role. In 2022, Nagano was nominated in the Best Actress category for her role in the 2021 film ''And So the Baton Is Passed'' at the 45th Japan Academy Film Prize. She was also named Best Actress at the 64th

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for her role in the same film. She then appeared in the drama ''Unicorn ni Notte''. She also starred in the

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film adaptation of the manga ''

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'' which was released in September 2022.

Filmography

Film

Television drama

Other television

Japanese dub

Music video appearances

Bibliography

Magazines

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1995-, as an exclusive model since 2010 *'' Nico☆Petite'',

Shinchosha is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in , Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. Books * Haruki Murakami: '' Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (1985), '' Ute ...

2006-, as an exclusive model from 2010 to 2013 *'' nicola'', Shinchosha 1997-, as an exclusive model from 2013 to 2016 *'' Seventeen'', Shueisha 1967-, as an exclusive model since 2016

Photobooks

* ''Moment'' (2019) * ''No cambia'' (2020)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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