Masami Nagasawa
Nagasawa at the 90th Tōkyō Yūshun Award Ceremony in May 2023
Born	(1987-06-03) June 3, 1987 (age 37) Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Height	169 cm (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)[1]
Parent	Kazuaki Nagasawa (father)
Awards	Blue Ribbon Award Japan Academy Prize Mainichi Film Award
Japanese name
Kanji	長澤 まさみ
Hiragana	ながさわ まさみ
Transcriptions Romanization Nagasawa Masami
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Masami Nagasawa (長澤 まさみ, Nagasawa Masami, born June 3, 1987) is a Japanese actress. She has had a prolific film career since her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters, receiving multiple accolades, including five Japan Academy Film Prizes and four Blue Ribbon Awards.

Nagasawa began her acting career at age twelve, when she starred as a young psychic orphan in the science fiction film Pyrokinesis (2000). While in high school, she starred as one of the Shobijin in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) and would gain recognition for her leading role in Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004), for which she won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress and two Japan Academy Film Prize awards.

In 2007, Nagasawa was nominated for the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Leading Actress and attained a Bunshun Raspberry Award for playing the title character in Tears for You (2006). Nagasawa's career progressed with her starring roles as Princess Yuki in Shinji Higuchi's Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess (2008), Umi Matsuzaki in Gorō Miyazaki's From Up on Poppy Hill (2011), and Miyuki Matsuo in the romantic comedy Love Strikes! (2011), for which she earned a second Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress.

After playing a supporting character in Makoto Shinkai's Your Name (2016), she portrayed the protagonist in the critically acclaimed science fiction drama Before We Vanish (2017), for which she won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress. In 2019, she starred in the crime mystery Masquerade Hotel and portrayed Yang Duan He in the action-adventure Kingdom, for which she was nominated for a Nikkan Sports Film Award; she later reprised the role of Yang Duan He in the 2023 film Kingdom: Flame of Destiny. Nagasawa has also played Dako in The Confidence Man JP film trilogy (2019-2022), Anna Kobayashi in Chen Sicheng's buddy-comedy Detective Chinatown 3 (2021), Hiroko Asami in Higuchi's critically acclaimed superhero film Shin Ultraman (2022), and Scorpion-Aug in Hideaki Anno's Shin Kamen Rider (2023).

Early life and background

Nagasawa was born on June 3, 1987,^[2] in Iwata, Shizuoka.^[3] She stated that during her childhood, her father, the former Júbilo Iwata manager Kazuaki Nagasawa,^[4] "wasn't at home much because of work". She has an older brother who actress Yoshino Kimura described as "handsome" and Nagasawa described as "cool".^[5]

Career

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Film

In 2000, Nagasawa won the Grand Prix at the 5th Toho Cinderella Audition,^[1] prevailing 35,153 female competitors.^[6] After winning the competition, Toho instructed director Shusuke Kaneko to give her a role in his science fiction action film Pyrokinesis.^[6] She played Kurata, an orphan child who has psychic powers such as pyrokinesis and psychometry. At the wrap party for the film, Kaneko said she had "no experience and directing her was a pain in the ass".^[6] Two years later she played minor roles in Nobuhiko Obayashi's Nagori Yuki^[7] and Akihiko Shiota's Yomigaeri.^[8]: 426 She also starring as one of the Shobijin in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). Her first lead role in a film was in 2003's Robot Contest.

Nagasawa's performance in Crying Out Love in the Center of the World received both a Blue Ribbon Award^[9] and a Japan Academy Prize for Best Supporting Actress.^[10]

In 2007, she received a Japan Academy Prize nomination in the Best Actress category for her performance in the 2006 film Nada Sōsō (Tears for You).^[11] After a string of less notable films, including Gunjo^[12] and Magare Spoon!,^[13] she starred in the 2011 film adaptation of Mitsurō Kubo's manga Moteki. Her performance in Moteki won Nagasawa a Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress,^[14] and she was nominated for a Japan Academy Award in the Best Actress category.^[15] That same year Nagasawa expanded into voice acting by providing the voice of character "Umi Matsuzaki" in the Studio Ghibli film From Up on Poppy Hill.^[16] In 2016 she provided the voice for the character "Miki Okudera" in the international hit Your Name.^[17]

Her live action films have also received international attention. Kiyoku Yawaku (Beyond the Memories), a live action adaptation of Ryo Ikuemi's manga series, was screened at the 17th annual Japanese Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia in 2013.^[18] Umimachi Diary (Our Little Sister), a live action adaptation of Akimi Yoshida's manga, competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[19] In 2017 Nagasawa starred in the Kiyoshi Kurosawa film Before We Vanish, which competed in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.^[20] Her performance in Before We Vanish also received recognition in Japan, winning a Mainichi Film Award for Best Lead Actress,^[21] and earning a nomination for a Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.^[22]

In 2018, she starred in 50 First Kisses, a Japanese remake of the 2004 American film 50 First Dates.^[23][24]

Television

Nagasawa starred in many Japanese television drama series. Early supporting roles in the 2002 NHK asadora Sakura and the 2005 Tokyo Broadcasting System Television live action manga adaptation Dragon Zakura led to more TV work, including a leading role in the 2007 Fuji TV series Proposal Daisakusen (Operation Love). Her performance in Proposal Daisakusen (Operation Love) received the most votes in the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix Best Actress category.^[25]

After her initial success in television, Nagasawa continued to perform in both supporting and leading television drama roles. In 2009 she played a supporting role in the NHK taiga drama Tenchijin, and in 2010 she joined several other leading Japanese actors in the Fuji TV 50th anniversary mini-series Wagaya no Rekishi.^[26] In 2012 her performance in the TV Asahi drama Toshi densetsu no onna won the 73rd Television Drama Academy Best Actress Award.^[27] In 2013 she learned Chinese to play a leading role in the Taiwan Television adaptation of the manga series Chocolat.^[28] Nagasawa returned to NHK in the 2016 taiga drama Sanada Maru.^[29]

Stage

Nagasawa is to appear with Jun Matsumoto and Eita Nagayama in Hideki Noda's Sei sankaku kankei (正三角関係, Trilateral connection). Performances are expected at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, in Kitakyushu and Osaka, as well as Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, under the name of "Love in action", running from July 11 until November 2, 2024.^[30]

Personal life

Nagasawa lives in Meguro, Tokyo.^[31]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2000	Pyrokinesis	Kaori Kurata	Acting debut	[8]: 415
2002	Nagori Yuki	Maho Mizuta		[7]
2003	Yomigaeri	Naomi Morishita		[8]: 426
	Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.	Mana, one of the Shobijin		[32]
	Robot Contest	Satomi Hazawa	Lead role	[33]
	Like Asura	Yōko Satomi		[34]
2004	Crying Out Love in the Center of the World	Aki Hirose	Lead role	[35]
	Breathe In, Breathe Out	Kanako Doi		[36]
	Godzilla: Final Wars	One of the Shobijin		[37]
2005	Touch	Minami Asakura	Lead role	[38]
2006	Rough	Ami Ninomiya	Lead role	[35]
	Tears for You	Kaoru	Lead role	[35]
2007	Say Hello for Me	Karin Takigawa/Suzune Morikawa	Lead role	[39]
2008	Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess	Princess Yuki		[40]
	La Maison en Petits Cubes	Narrator		[41]
2009	Cobalt Blue	Ryoko Nakamura	Lead role	[42]
	Go Find a Psychic!	Yone Sakurai	Lead role	[43]
2010	Sunshine Ahead	Churashima Okinawa Ambassador		[44]
2011	Gaku: Minna no Yama	Kumi Shiina		[45]
	From Up on Poppy Hill	Umi Matsuzaki (voice)	Lead role	[46]
	Love Strikes!	Miyuki Matsuo		[35][47]
	I Wish	Kōchi Mimura		[48]
2012	Japan's Wildlife: The Untold Story	Narrator		[49]
2013	Beyond the Memories	Kanna Seto	Lead role	[35]
	The Last Chance: Diary of Comedians	Kumi		[50]
2014	Wood Job!	Naoki Ishii		[51]
	The Crossing Part 1	Masako Shimura	Chinese-Hong Kong film	[52]
2015	Our Little Sister	Yoshino Kōda	Lead role	[35]
	The Crossing Part 2	Masako Shimura	Chinese-Hong Kong film	[53]
	I Am a Hero	Yabu / Tsugumi Oda		[54]
2016	Good Morning Show	Keiko Ogawa		[55]
	Gold Medal Man	Ms. Sano, teacher		[56]
	Your Name	Miki Okudera (voice)		[57]
2017	Reminiscence	Minako Shikata		[58]
	Gintama	Tae Shimura		[35]
	Before We Vanish	Narumi Kase	Lead role	[59]
2018	Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island	Fiona (voice)	Guest appearance	[60]
	The Lies She Loved	Yukari Kawahara	Lead role	[35]
	50 First Kisses	Rui Fujishima	Lead role	[35]
	Gintama 2	Tae Shimura		[35]
	Bleach	Masaki Kurosaki		[61]
2019	Masquerade Hotel	Naomi Yamagishi		[35]
	Kingdom	Yang Duan He		[35]
	The Confidence Man JP: The Movie	Dako	Lead role	[35]
2020	The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Princess	Darko	Lead role	[35]
	Mother	Akiko Misumi	Lead role	[35]
2021	Detective Chinatown 3	Anna Kobayashi	Chinese film	[62]
	Under the Open Sky	Yoshizawa		[63]
	Masquerade Night	Naomi Yamagishi		[64]
2022	The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Hero	Darko	Lead role	[65]
	Shin Ultraman	Hiroko Asami		[66]
	A Hundred Flowers	Kaori Kasai		[67]
2023	Shin Kamen Rider	Scorpion Augment-01		[68]
	Do Unto Others	Hidemi Ōtomo		[69]
	Kingdom 3: The Flame of Destiny	Yang Duan He		[70]
2024	The Parades	Minako	Lead role	[71]
	April Come She Will	Yayoi Sakamoto		[72]
	Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General	Yang Duan He		[73]
	All About Suomi	Suomi	Lead role	[74]

Dubbing

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2016	Sing	Ash	2017 Japanese dub	[75]
2021	Sing 2	Ash	2022 Japanese dub	[76]

Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2001	Pure Soul	Maru Seta
2002	Sakura	Kanako Numata	Asadora
2004	True Horror Story	Mayu Morimoto
	Runaway	Onizuka Sari
	Mystery Theater: Satsujin Stunt	Hitomi Takamizawa	Guest
2005	Affectionate Time	Azusa Minagawa
	Hiroshima Showa 20 nen 8 Gatsu Muika	Maki Yajima	TV movie
2005–2021	Dragon Sakura	Naomi Mizuno	2 seasons	[77]
2006	Kōmyō ga Tsuji	Korin	Taiga drama	[78]
	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun	Hoshi Izumi	Lead role
2007	Akechi Mitsuhide	Tsumaki Hiroko	TV movie
	Romeo and Juliet	Juliet Kihira
	The Reason Mama Cooks	Miyuki Kouda	Special appearance
	Proposal Daisakusen	Rei Yoshida	Lead role	[35]
	Butterfly Stroke in Ganges River	Teruko Takano	Lead role
	20 Year Old Lover	Sawada Yuri	Lead role
2008	Proposal Daikusen SP	Rei Yoshida	Lead role
	Last Friends	Michiru Aida	Lead role	[35]
	Galileo: Episode Zero	Akari Shionoya
	Fujiko F. Fujio no Parallel Space Nebumi Camera	Takeko	Lead role
2009	Tenchijin	Hatsune	Taiga drama	[78]
	Soka, Mo Kimi wa Inai no Ka	Yōko	TV movie
	My Sister	Saya	Lead role
2010	Sotsu Uta	Hitomi Tachibana	Lead role
	Wagaya no Rekishi	Yukari Ichinose	Mini-series
	Gold	Rika		[79]
2012	Bunshin	Mariko/Futaba/Akiko	Lead role; miniseries	[80]
	High School Entrance Exam	Kyōko Haruyama	Lead role