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.

Filmography

• 2026Abiding
• 2026BURN — Ju-Ju
• 2026Beasts Clutching at Straws — Shina
• 2026OPTI
• ROCK PAPER LANDMINE
• 20251st Kiss — Anri Seki
• 20255 Centimeters per Second — Kanae Sumida
• 2025Frontline - Yokohama Bay
• Hirayasumi — Natsumi Kobayashi
• 2025Kokuho — Akiko
• 2024April, Come She Will — Haru Iyoda
• 2024At the Bench
• 2024Hen na koe
• 2024Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 25 Shuunen Tokubetsu-hen
• 2024The Parades — Nana
• Cinderellas of Midsummer — Natsumi Aoi
• 2023Father of the Milky Way Railroad — Miyazawa Toshi
• 2023Insomniacs After School — Isaki Magari
• The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House — Kiyo
• 2023The Window of non-REM Winter 2023
• Duty and Revenge — Sawai Mikako
• 2022Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery — Yurina Kurasaka
• The Window of non-REM
• 2021Liar x Liar — Minato Takatsuki
• 2021Tales of the Bizarre: 2021 Fall Special
• 2020461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son — Hiromi Nishina
• A Warmed Up Love — Kiki Inoue
• 2020Blue, Painful, Fragile — Mizuki Nishiyama
• I Had a Dream of That Girl
• 2020Last Letter — Fuka / Young Yuri
• 2020Little Letter
• Pops Loves Kawaii Stuff — Narrator (voice)
• Tsukai TV Sukatto Japan
• Yell
• 2019Hell Girl — Miho Ichikawa
• Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom — Runa Horibe
• 2019The First Supper — Miyako in childhood
• 2019Tokyo Ghoul 'S' — Yoriko Kosaka
• 2019Weathering with You — Hina Amano (voice)
• Eerie: Invisible Face — Misuzu Nakao
• Magic × Warrior MagiMajo Pures! — Machiko Nagata
• Suits — Natsumi Uesugi
• Weakest Beast — Chiharu Hanai (Young)
• Tokyo Vampire Hotel — Akari

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Golden SixTONES — Self