Nana Mori
Birthday: 2001-08-31
Birthplace: Osaka, Japan
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
Nana Mori is a Japanese actress known for the earthy naturalism and grounded vulnerability she brings to contemporary independent and mainstream cinema. Discovered in her home prefecture of Oita at age 15, she bypassed traditional idol career tracks in favor of selective collaborations with prominent Japanese auteurs.
She gained widespread international recognition in 2019 for her voice acting breakthrough as Hina Amano in Makoto Shinkai’s climate-anxiety anime masterpiece Weathering with You. Recognizing her chameleonic ability to balance youthful innocence with an understated melancholy, legendary filmmaker Shunji Iwai cast her in his 2020 epistolary romance Last Letter. Playing a dual role across fragmented timelines, her performance earned her the Newcomer of the Year award at the 44th Japan Academy Film Prize.
In the 2023 series The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, Mori shines as Kiyo, a aspiring maiko who finds her true calling as a house cook. Her performance is the series’ emotional core, anchoring Hirokazu Kore-eda’s culinary world with a quiet, unforced warmth that eschews sentimentality for something genuinely lived-in.
Credits
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2026-09-25 | Beasts Clutching at Straws | Shina |
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2026-06-13 | OPTI | |
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2026-04-10 | BURN | Ju-Ju |
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2026-03-06 | 青い鳥 | |
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2025-10-10 | 5 Centimeters per Second | Kanae Sumida |
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2025-06-13 | Frontline - Yokohama Bay | |
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2025-06-06 | Kokuho | Akiko |
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2025-02-07 | 1st Kiss | Anri Seki |
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2024-12-04 | Hen na koe | |
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2024-11-15 | At the Bench | |
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2024-08-17 | Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 25 Shuunen Tokubetsu-hen | |
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2024-03-22 | April, Come She Will | Haru Iyoda |
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2024-02-28 | The Parades | Nana |
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2023-12-25 | The Window of non-REM Winter 2023 | |
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2023-06-23 | Insomniacs After School | Isaki Magari |
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2023-05-05 | Father of the Milky Way Railroad | Miyazawa Toshi |
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2022-09-17 | Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery | Yurina Kurasaka |
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2021-11-06 | Tales of the Bizarre: 2021 Fall Special | |
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2021-02-19 | Liar x Liar | Minato Takatsuki |
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2020-11-06 | 461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son | Hiromi Nishina |
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2020-08-28 | Blue, Painful, Fragile | Mizuki Nishiyama |
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2020-01-17 | Last Letter | Fuka / Young Yuri |
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2020-01-17 | Little Letter | |
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2019-11-15 | Hell Girl | Miho Ichikawa |
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2019-11-01 | The First Supper | Miyako in childhood |
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2019-07-19 | Weathering with You | Hina Amano (voice) |
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2019-07-19 | Tokyo Ghoul 'S' | Yoriko Kosaka |