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Nagano Satomi



Nagano Satomi is a Japanese actress from Kanagawa prefecture. She graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Literature, and joined the university's Theater Study Group in 1981 during her studies.



From 1996, she studied abroad in London for a year as an overseas trainee of the Agency for Cultural Affairs.



Her husband is Uesugi Shozo, an actor, playwright, and director.

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Name Nagano Satomi
Nationality Japanese
Gender Female
Born August 15, 1961
Age 61
Type Japanese

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Popularity #3

Drama

Shanai Marriage Honey (2020)
社内マリッジハニー
Miura Manatsu is a young office worker who finds himself in a quandary: His mother is suffering from ill-health, and he believes that getting married will be a good way to bring some cheer to her – and help her recovery. The only problem is he doesn’t have a girlfriend. So he downloads a dating app...
Gokusen 2 (2005)
ごくせん 2
Half a year has passed, and Shirokin Gakuen has closed down. Yamaguchi Kumiko finds herself a teacher of a few young kids, who don't really benefit much from her style of teaching. Through some twist of fate, she is offered a job as a teacher in Kurogin Gakuen. She becomes the teacher of a delinquen...
Tokyo DOGS (2009)
東京DOGS
Takakura So witnessed the murder of his father at a young age. Engaging in catching the killer, he grew up to become an elite cop in New York City, where the criminal lives. His character is cold and disciplined, but he adapts well. Due to major drug trafficking, he was sent to Tokyo to conduct a jo...
Unnatural (2018)
アンナチュラル
Unnatural is a case-of-the-week medical mystery show; its main theme is the change of reality brought upon by imminent death of a loved one. Mystery and exhilarating human drama unfold against the backdrop of the “unnatural death institute”, or “UDI”. For example, the body of a young man is brought...
Tantei Gakuen Q (2007)
探偵学園Q
Notebooks that foretell deaths, numerous urban legends, and murders with no clues... a series of strange incidents occur, and people are lead into a deep labyrinth of mysteries. Five fledgling teen detectives of the Dan Detective Academy, which was founded by the legendary and renowned detective, Mo...
Dear Sister (2014)
ディア・シスター
27-year-old Fukazawa Misaki and 29-year-old Hazuki are sisters who are polar opposites in both lifestyle and personality. Although they would hurt each other's feelings, they would also make up for each other’s deficiencies. The beautiful Misaki is the typical younger sister who is good at putting o...
Kounodori (2015)
コウノドリ
The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver eve...
Anata no Ban Desu (2019)
あなたの番です
Nana and Shota are a newlywed couple and Nana is 15 years older than Shota. Nana works as a designer and Shota works as a gym trainer. They both enjoy mystery. The newlywed couple then move to an apartment and they attend a resident's meeting there. Nana and Shota become involved in murder cases tha...
Gibo to Musume no Blues (2018)
義母と娘のブルース
Miyamoto Ryoichi, father of an 8-year-old daughter, proposed to marry and married Akiko Iwaki, a 32-year-old career-oriented woman. What happens when a career-oriented woman who has never raised a child before has to take on new tasks as a stepmother? Raising a child is much more delicate than she t...
Senryokugai Sousakan (2014)
戦力外捜査官
The beautiful Umizuki Chinami, passionate about mystery and career elite, was assigned to the first investigation division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police as a beginner detective. However, on her first day of work, she was told that she was not part of their plans for the future. Chinami is associa...
The Confidence Man JP (2018)
コンフィデンスマンJP
An exciting and entertaining comedy on a bizarre plane aimed at stealing a large sum of money from people consumed by desire. The main character, Dako, and his partners in crime, a serious and dedicated young man, Boku-chan, and a veteran of trust, Richard, use all the means necessary to steal money...
G-Senjou no Anata to Watashi (2019)
G線上のあなたと私
Yaeko Kogure is a 27-year-old office lady. After she resigned from her company to get married, her fiancé informed her that he was in love with another woman and broke off their engagement. Yaeko Kogure no longer has a job or a boyfriend. While crying to herself in a shopping mall, she hears "Air on...
Yakou Kanransha (2013)
夜行観覧車
The drama is based on the best selling same-titled novel Minato Kanae, and is about two families that reside in the same upscale neighborhood. Amongst all the beautiful homes lined up in a row, there is a small house that belongs to the Endo family. Even though it is small, but it is a dream come tr...
Kojinsa Arimasu (2022)
個人差あります
A drama about the childless relationship of a salaryman and his wife. (Source: MyDramaList)
Iryu Team Medical Dragon 2 (2007)
医龍 Team Medical Dragon 2
In Iryu 2, Asada Ryutaro is waging a new battle against the realities of Japan's medical care system. The government has developed legislation to combat the recent inflation of medical expenses; hospitals have entered an era of bankruptcy if they are not independently managed. At the same time, merg...
Anata no Ban Desu - Counterattack (2019)
あなたの番です 反撃編
Continuation of the first season of Anata No Ban Desu.
Saki ni Umareta Dake no Boku (2017)
先に生まれただけの僕
A 35-years-old former elite business employee becoming a principal who manages a private high school facing poor management.
Shiranakute Ii Koto (2020)
知らなくていいコト
Keito is a reporter for a weekly magazine. The magazine covers everything from corruption by politicians to entertainers' scandals. She watches out for the next big scoop. Keito is also rich and enjoys her work, as well as her love life. One day, Keito's mother suddenly dies. Anna was a single mothe...
Final Cut (2018)
ファイナル・カット
During his high school years, Nakamura Keisuke’s mother was accused of the murder of a young girl. The story is set 12 years after this incident, and Keisuke sets out on a revenge mission to find the actual murderer who is to blame for eventually forcing her mother to commit suicide. Individuals who...
Soshite, Ikiru (2019)
そして、生きる
Ikuta Toko was raised by her uncle in the town of Morioka. She was active as a local idol with the hope of one day becoming an actress. When she was 19, she looked forward to going to Tokyo for a major audition. However, on the eve of the hearing, Japan was struck by the great earthquake of Tohoku.(...
Nijiiro Karute (2021)
にじいろカルテ
Kureno Masora is a young doctor who was working happily at a large hospital in Tokyo. However, she found out that she has an illness and decided to continue working as a doctor, while hiding her illness at a clinic located in a small village called "Niji no Mura". Therefore, Masora gets to meet the...
Trace: Kasouken no Otoko (2019)
トレース~科捜研の男~
Reiji Mano is a forensic science researcher at the Scientific Research Laboratory in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He is good at his job, possessing a vast amount of knowledge and having excellent technique. However, he is a lone wolf who does not cooperate with others. When he works on...
Suna no Tou - Shiri Sugita Rinjin (2016)
砂の塔~知りすぎた隣人
Takano Aki is a happy, ordinary housewife whose family (sweet husband and two kids) has moved to their dream apartment. Just as they are starting their new life, they encounter an ominous, terrifying neighbour, Sasaki Yumiko, who manipulates the dark emotions of pride, vanity and jealousy of the hou...
Seito Shokun! (2007)
生徒諸君!
Students who do not trust teachers, teachers who give up faith in education, parents who blame schools for their children's misbehavior... Naoko was at a loss when she was assigned as a new high school teacher. Times have changed and students are no longer easy to control, but she chose not to look...
Chimudondon (2022)
ちむどんどん
Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa. She aims to become a chef drawing inspiration from Okinawan cuisine. The four siblings follow very different paths, but the memories of their hometown con...
Hoshi Kara Kita Anata (2022)
星から来たあなた
A love fantasy with a unique world view that depicts the love pattern of an alien, Mitsuru Higashiyama, disguised as a university professor, living on Earth while hiding her identity for 400 years, and a popular actress, with attitude problems, Sasahara Tsubaki. (Source: Japanese = hochi.news
Kasouken no Onna: Season 20 (2020)
科捜研の女 Season 20
Season 20 of Kasouken no Onna
Shinhannin (2018)
真犯人
The murder of Sudo Isao, a used car salesman, occurred in Shizuoka Prefecture in 2008. Detective Kusaka Satoru of the Susuno prefectural police station in Shizuoka is checking his history. He learns that Sudo's young son, Obata Mamoru, who was born from a previous marriage, died in a kidnapping in S...
Dance Drill (2006)
ダンドリ
The story of this drama is based on a cheerleader team from a high school in Kanagawa Prefecture who won the All-US cheerleader contest. The last summer holidays in high school are a time when unforgettable memories are created and everything seems so bright. July 2006. For 18 girls, their unforge...
Aibou: Season 16 (2017)
相棒シーズン16
Ukyo Sugishita, a police inspector assigned to the Special Missions Unit of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and his partner, Wataru Kaburagi solve challenging cases. (Source: jhollywoodnet)
Team Batista 4: Raden Meikyu (2014)
チーム・バチスタ4 螺鈿迷宮
The story deals with a hospital in a village, which is run by Sakuranomiya family. The hospital does mainly end-of-life care. The residents there place their full confidence in the hospital. One day, a radiologist at the hospital disappears with one CT. What did the radiologist try to discover and...
Shi no Zouki (2015)
死の臓器
Kyota Numazaki (Kotaro Koizumi) is the director of a TV program production company. He discovers a female body in a forest in Fuji. The autopsy concludes that the female froze to death, but a kidney from the body was removed. Detective Shiroi (Kosuke Toyohara) doubts the conclusion of the autopsy re...
Gekiryu - Watashi wo Oboete Imasuka? (2013)
激流~私を憶えていますか?~
An email message from a girl who had gone missing on a school excursion 20 years ago leads five former classmates to meet again and get embroiled in a baffling incident: 35-year-old Misumi Keiko, an editor who was suddenly laid off from the literary department of the publishing company where she wor...
Keishichou Sousa Ikka 9-Gakari Season 3 (2008)
警視庁捜査一課9係 3
Aoyagi Yasushi became chief detective of the ninth sub-division of the first investigation division led by Kano Rintaro. The former chief detective, Murase Kengo, had been promoted to the head of the fourteenth sub-division. One day, the murdered body of Mizushima Akemi, a hostess of Ginza, was foun...
Namonaki Doku (2013)
名もなき毒
Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company that his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada asks Saburo Sugimura to find out about Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request. ~~ Adapted from the two novels "Dare ka Somebody" by Miyuki Miyabe.
Bull Doctor (2011)
ブルドクター
Tamami Esumi's character is the " bull doctor" of the title of the series, which comes from the word "bulldozer". Ignoring any opposition from her entourage, she uses all the means necessary to determine the truth behind the death of the bodies she examines. Because of her personality, she constantl...
Rikon Bengoshi Season 2 (2005)
離婚弁護士II〜ハンサムウーマン〜
In the previous series, Takako Mamiya was an elite lawyer who handled public relations cases. She quit her job at a prestigious law firm to establish her own office. She confidently walked into her new office only to find that her former firm had interfered and taken all her lawyers and staff. They...
Koshonin 2 (2009)
交渉人 2
The new season opens with a series of deadly incidents involving firearms sent to various people by a person known as "Summer Claus". The weapons appear to be part of a batch of 27 stolen weapons, and so far 14 of them have been distributed. It is now Usagi and the rest of the SIT to recover the oth...
Keishichou Sousa Ikka 9-Gakari Season 6 (2011)
警視庁捜査一課9係 6
Aoyagi Yasushi becomes the chief detective at the First Investigative Division’s Ninth Sub-division which Kano Rintaro heads. The former chief detective, Murase Kengo, had been promoted to lead the Fourteenth Sub-division. One day, the murdered body of Mizushima Akemi, a Ginza hostess, is found. Acc...
Keishicho Keizoku Sosahan (2010)
警視庁継続捜査班
Manami Kishi teaches at the police academy and is widely regarded as an expert in the field of profiling. With the recent abolishment of the statue of limitations for murder, Manami Kishi is asked by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police to help solve cases in which the statue of limitations previously appl...
Sanadamaru (2016)
真田丸
NHK's 55th taiga drama series. Sanada Yukimura was born to a lord who owned a small piece of land in Shinsu (present-day Nagano Prefecture). He survived using wisdom, courage and much effort during the Sengoku period and eventually, he grew into a much-respected samurai warrior. During The Siege of...
Fumo Chitai (2009)
不毛地帯
Iki Tadashi is a military leader who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of work in a hard prison camp in Siberia. After 11 years in prison, he was released. He returned to Japan and began to adapt to civilian life, refusing his...
Double Fantasy (2018)
ダブル・ファンタジー
Takato Natsu, a popular screenwriter, lives with her husband Shogo, who is now working as her manager but used to be a TV station director. Natsu cannot suppress her strong sexual desire and has an affair with Theatre Director Shizawa. Natsu leaves her home after sensing that her husband is trying t...
An inspiring human drama that boldly captures "what" is important for a mere individual to survive in a confusingly diversified time of age. In Japan, crime rates among seventeen-year-old high school students are increasing year by year, and "seventeen years old" are often referred to as the most di...
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora (2006)
半分の月がのぼる空
During the winter, Yuichi was hospitalized due to hepatitis. Randomly he would try to escape from the hospital but would get beat up by the nurse. One day, he happened to meet Rika, a girl of his age, in the next building. He was fascinated by her beauty, but she was very selfish girl. Although she...
Yoru no Sensei (2014)
夜のせんせい
Yoruno Sakura has become a rookie teacher at a part-time high school after going through numerous setbacks and being the proprietress of a bar. She is the type of person who is diligent in everything, but encountered failures in life over and over due to bad luck and her tactlessness. Even so, she d...
Toumei na Yurikago (2018)
透明なゆりかご
Aoi, 17, arrives at Yui Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinic as an apprentice part-time nurse in the summer of 1997. Right after her entry, she was shocked after attending an abortion operation. However, she meets staff members like Yui, the clinic director who pays attention to everything, Sayako, a r...
Shiroi Kyoto (2019)
白い巨塔
Based on novel by Yamasaki Toyoko, screenplay by Habara Daisuke and directed by Tsuruhashi Yasuo. The era setting is changed from the Showa 30's to the year 2019.
Apoyan (2013)
あぽやん
Based on the serialised novel by Shinno Takeshi, Apoyan tells the story of the people behind every overseas trip. From the travel agents to the people working at the airport. Endo Keita works for JALPAK, and was based at the Head Office, in charge of the overseas packages' projects. One day, he was...
Isshun no Kaze ni Nare (2008)
一瞬の風になれ
The story revolves around a high schooler who enters the world of track and field. --Tokyograph
Dareka ga, Mite Iru (2020)
誰かが、見ている
Toneri Shinichi is a young man living in a condominium in Saitama. He's someone that fails at everything he does. Whenever he gets a new job, he gets quickly fired. On the other hand, Kashiya Jiro is the resident in the room next to Shinichi's. He suddenly discovers a hole in the wall which he can u...
HEAT (2015)
ヒート
Tatsuya Ikegami works for a real estate company, on an urban development project that costs billions of yen. The city of Sachio is currently proposed as the site of the project. To buy the necessary land, Tatsuya has to find out who the owners are. So he hides his identity and joins the Sachio volun...
Yotsuba Ginko Harashima Hiromi ga mono mosu! - Kono Hito ni Kakero (2019)
よつば銀行 原島浩美がモノ申す! ~この女に賭けろ~
Harashima Hiromi had worked at the headquarters of Yotsuba Bank since she joined the metropolitan bank straight out of college. However, she has a very strong sense of justice and caused an incident three years ago. This resulted in her secondment to an affiliate company. This time, Hiromi is select...
Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Season 2 (2004)
ほんとにあった怖い話 season 2
N/A
Koisuru Top Lady (2002)
恋するトップレディ
Chiharu is a "normal young lady" who comes to prominence by unhappy accident but succeeds on the strength of her own intellect. Chiharu's father is the mayor of the city, but when he dies suddenly, she is persuaded by his backers to run for his vacant seat. She wins, but to the surprise and constern...
Yo nimo Kimyou na Monogatari Series 1 (1990)
世にも奇妙な物語 第1シリーズ
The first in a series of anthology-style programs featuring strange tales which originally ran on Fuji TV, hosted by the famous comedian, Tamori.
Seigi wa Katsu (1995)
正義は勝つ
"It's not winning or losing, what's important is that justice is served." When ace lawyer Junpei Takaoka of Central Law Office says this does he really mean it? Perhaps not, but Kyoko Himeno, a young idealistic lawyer, takes both justice and Takaoka to heart. This suspenseful courtroom drama follows...
Mukodono 2003 (2003)
ムコ殿2003
On the outside he's a cool and handsome big star, the #1 man whom women in Japan would love to be held by. Actually, however, he's a real geek, a guy who is sentimental and warm-hearted. Announcing the return of Yuichiro Sakuraba! That major star Yuichiro Sakuraba is actually a geek who breaks down...
Anata ni wa Kaeru Ie ga Aru (2018)
あなたには帰る家がある
Sato Mayumi is a housewife who has been married to Hideaki, a salesman in a home selling company, for 13 years. Her daughter is accepted into a middle school, however, the family lacks money to pay for her tuition fees. Mayumi then decides to start working again to help pay the fees. Hideaki doesn't...
Pokkapoka 3 (1996)
ぽっかぽか 3
Third season of Pokkapoka. Adapted from Jun Fukami manga with the same title. It tells the story of an ordinary salaryman and his family.
Pokkapoka 2 (1995)
ぽっかぽか 2
Second season of Pokkapoka. Adapted from Jun Fukami manga with the same title. It tells the story of an ordinary salaryman and his family.
Pokkapoka 1 (1994)
ぽっかぽか 1
First season of the serie. Adapted from Jun Fukami manga with the same title. It tells the story of an ordinary salaryman and his family.
"Whatever the hardness of life is, you always have to show the same face to the customers. Omizu" is more than a typical story about working in the night entertainment industry - it is the story of the success of a group of women working as hostesses in a Roppongi club.Women working in nightclubs co...
Kohiya No Hitobito (2014)
珈琲屋の人々
Shitamachi, Tokyo. Along a shopping street, there is a retro-looking cafe, "Coffee-ya". Soda Kosuke is the owner of the said cafe, and the coffee that he brews lovingly, warms the heart of the drinker. However, Kosuke is an ex-convict and has a painful emotional past. One day, Kashiwagi Fuyuko disco...

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Anata ni wa Kaeru Ie ga Aru (2003)
あなたには帰る家がある