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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.
Momakase is a 2026 American superhero film based on the recurring supervillain from Big Hero 6: The Series, produced by Walt Disney Studios, Legendary Pictures, Marvel Studios, and The Stone Quarry, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment in Legendary's Big Hero 6 Universe and the first film of Part One: Redemption and Atonement. Directed by Marc Webb and written by the directors of Big Hero 6, Don Hall and Chris Williams, the film stars Rina Sawayama as Akari Hayami, an ambitious and egotistical renowned Japanese master chef and professional thief with the alias "Momakase", who reluctantly returns to the slums of American-Japanese city San Fransokyo to confront her past after she becomes uneasy upon believing that her American father is still alive. Sawayama is supported by Jimmy Wong, Mei Nagano, Cillian Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Harry Lennix, and David Harbour. Momakase premiered in San Francisco on January 10th, 2026, and was released on February 5th; it grossed over $727 million worldwide at the global box-office, breaking-even of its $170 million budget. The film received praise for its direction, visuals, story, action sequences, Hans Zimmer's musical score, the performances of Sawayama and Harbour, and emotional weight. A sequel is in development.
