Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 31, 2001
Place of Birth
Osaka, Japan
Credits
44 titles
Nana Mori
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Beasts Clutching at Straws
Shina
OPTI
BURN
Ju-Ju
青い鳥
Hirayasumi
Natsumi Kobayashi
5 Centimeters per Second
Kanae Sumida
Frontline - Yokohama Bay
Kokuho
Akiko
Golden SixTONES
1st Kiss
Anri Seki
Hen na koe
At the Bench
Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 25 Shuunen Tokubetsu-hen
April, Come She Will
Haru Iyoda
The Parades
Nana
The Window of non-REM Winter 2023
Cinderellas of Midsummer
Natsumi Aoi
Insomniacs After School
Isaki Magari
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
Miyazawa Toshi
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Kiyo
Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery
Yurina Kurasaka
The Window of non-REM
Duty and Revenge
Sawai Mikako
Tales of the Bizarre: 2021 Fall Special
Liar x Liar
Minato Takatsuki
461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
Hiromi Nishina
A Warmed Up Love
Kiki Inoue
I Had a Dream of That Girl
Blue, Painful, Fragile
Mizuki Nishiyama
Pops Loves Kawaii Stuff
Narrator (voice)
Tsukai TV Sukatto Japan
Yell
Last Letter
Fuka / Young Yuri
Little Letter
Hell Girl
Miho Ichikawa
The First Supper
Miyako in childhood
Weathering with You
Hina Amano (voice)
Tokyo Ghoul 'S'
Yoriko Kosaka
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
Runa Horibe
Weakest Beast
Chiharu Hanai (Young)
Suits
Natsumi Uesugi（上杉 夏美）
Eerie: Invisible Face
Misuzu Nakao
Magic × Warrior MagiMajo Pures!
Machiko Nagata
Tokyo Vampire Hotel
Akari