1. Masami Nagasawa 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.
10 Facts About Masami Nagasawa
1. 2.
In 2007, Masami 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.
3.
Masami Nagasawa was born on June 3,1987, in Iwata, Shizuoka.
4.
Masami Nagasawa stated that during her childhood, her father, the former Jubilo Iwata manager Kazuaki Nagasawa, "wasn't at home much because of work".
5.
Masami Nagasawa has an older brother who actress Yoshino Kimura described as "handsome" and Nagasawa described as "cool".
6.
In 2000, Masami Nagasawa won the Grand Prix at the 5th Toho Cinderella Audition, prevailing 35,153 female competitors.
7.
Masami Nagasawa played Kurata, an orphan child who has psychic powers such as pyrokinesis and psychometry.
Related searches
Kiyoshi Kurosawa 8.
That same year Masami Nagasawa expanded into voice acting by providing the voice of character "Umi Matsuzaki" in the Studio Ghibli film From Up on Poppy Hill.
9.
In 2017 Masami Nagasawa starred in the Kiyoshi Kurosawa film Before We Vanish, which competed in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
10.
Masami Nagasawa returned to NHK in the 2016 taiga drama Sanada Maru.