Non

Rena Nounen is a Japanese actress and fashion model from Kamikawa, Hyogo Prefecture. She is best known for her lead roles on the NHK drama series Amachan (2013). She debuted as a fashion model in 2006 and was selected as the eleventh image character for Calpis in 2012. In 2012 she was chosen in an audition of 1953 women to play the heroine in the 2013 NHK Asadora Amachan, in which she plays a high school girl who decides to become an ama, or female shell diver, as well as an idol. Amachan was a rating success, earning an average 20.6% rating over the span of the series, second amongst Asadora only to Umechan Sensei (at 20.7%) in the last decade. Nounen served as the "PR Ambassador" for the 2013 Kohaku Uta Gassen and was a featured performer on the show, singing and leading the band. In July 2016, it was announced that she changed her stage name to "Non". In August 2017, she started up the music label “KAIWA(RE)CORD” and will begin producing full-fledged music.

Works

Amachan

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.

Release Date2013-04-01

Charactersd Aki Amano

Episode Count157

Vote Count14

Happy Kanako's Killer Life

When Kanako accidentally applies to work at an assassination agency, the timid office worker discovers that she has a knack for bumping people off. Will she ever earn the respect of Sakurai, her prickly and kinda hot co-worker–and why is she still having silly workplace problems when she’s employed with hitmen?!

Release Date2025-02-28

Charactersd Kanako Nishino

Episode Count6

Vote Count29

Pokémon Concierge

Welcome to Pokémon Resort, a peaceful getaway for Pokémon to relax and have fun. Which adorable guest will the new concierge Haru befriend and help first?

Release Date2023-12-28

Charactersd Haru (voice)

Episode Count8

Vote Count92

Tokyo Mid 30s

Tokyo Mid 30s

Three 35-year-old women navigate the realistic struggles and complexities of love, career, and family while striving to live authentically on their own terms.

Release Date2026-07-22

Charactersd Yamaji Haruka

Episode Count7

Confessions

Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.

Release Date2010-06-04

Charactersd Shuka Kiritani

Vote Count1004

Miss King

The daughter of a genius shogi player channels the pain of her father's abandonment and her mother's death to become an elite competitor.

Release Date2025-09-29

Charactersd Asuka Kunimi

Episode Count8

Vote Count14

Bullet Train Explosion

When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board.

Release Date2025-04-23

Charactersd Chika Matsumoto

Vote Count330

The Locked Room Murders

Enomoto Kei is a security "otaku" working for a security firm, devoted to improving the securities system on a daily basis. He is not an easy person to familiarize oneself with, always collected and calm, unapproachable, a maniac in Physics, Science, Architecture and profound in other basic theoretical foundation. He is certain and proud of the fact that there is no key which he cannot unlock. One day, Kei is asked to help reveal a mystery behind a locked room murderer. While he lacks any interest in solving the mystery, he is inevitably intrigued by the term, "Closed Doors" and decides to take on the position. He works side by side with Aoto Junko and Serizawa Gou, who are lawyers working at a major law firm. Junko is pure and forward, acting upon her instincts while Serizawa is a prideful elitist who sees time as money, and therefore, will not take on any job that is unprofitable. Possessing a vast amount of knowledge and acute insightfulness, Kei is able to unlock the closed doors and unravel the secrets leading to the solution. Never before has there been a drama focused solely on closed doors.

Release Date2012-04-16

Charactersd Mizuki Rina

Episode Count12

Vote Count16

In This Corner of the World

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Release Date2016-11-12

Charactersd Suzu Hojo (voice)

Vote Count639

Small Fry Heroes

Seven unemployed individuals with uniquely quirky superpowers are secretly gathered by the Ministry of Defense in a locked room to save the world, transforming their personal complexes into Earth's salvation.

Release Date2026-01-07

Charactersd Hio Sae

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

After the Quake

This year marks thirty years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and four stories that are based on Murakami Haruki’s exquisite short series about the people ‘after the quake’ are adapted into dramas featuring star-studded casts.

Release Date2025-04-05

Charactersd Voice

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Climbing for Life

In 1975, a woman reached the summit of Mount Everest: Junko, the first woman in history to reach the world's highest peak. Junko's unforgettable feat stunned the world, bringing her into the spotlight but casting a huge shadow over her friends and family. Despite being diagnosed with a terminal illness in her final years, Junko continued to challenge the mountains. What was the last thing she saw beyond the summit?

Release Date2025-10-31

Charactersd Junko Tabei (Adolescent)

Vote Count1

Miss Mirai

Mirai does nothing but plays games every day. Her brother supports and believes in his sister, and he is a researcher who develops future tools. Mirai exploits that and the whole family experiences a series of troublesome and hilarious events.

Release Date2018-09-08

Charactersd Konno Mirai

Episode Count5

Vote Count3

The Fish Tale

A young child is obsessed with learning about and drawing fish. The child seems a little odd, but if you are understanding and supportive you will be cheering in the end.

Release Date2022-09-01

Charactersd Meebo

Vote Count23

Lives at Right Angles

Daiki has autism spectrum disorder, and his sister Nozomi has supported him since childhood. Having lost their mother at a young age, the siblings distanced themselves from their neglectful father and have lived their lives diligently together

Release Date2026-08-28

Charactersd Nozomi

After the Quake

Based on four of the six short stories compiled in Murakami Haruki's anthology, After the Quake explores the complex aftermath of Japan’s earthquakes and other global crises. (Movie version of the TV drama).

Release Date2025-10-03

Charactersd Frog (voice)

Vote Count10

By Rule of Crow's Thumb

Constantly on the run from a vicious loan shark, two small-time con artists, Take and Tetsu, plan their biggest and most complex con yet in order to get revenge and retire from a life of crime. However, things get complicated when they cross paths with Mahiro, a young woman that Take inadvertently orphaned during a job gone awry years ago. Seeing Mahiro down on her luck, Take tries to relieve his guilt by taking her on as a partner, while hiding his true identity. But as his plan unfolds, Take discovers that he isn't the only one with a secret.

Release Date2012-11-21

Charactersd Mahiro

Vote Count11

Hot Road

Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from Yokohama named Eri introduces her to Hiroshi Haruyama, a reckless youth who’s a member of the “Nights” motorcycle gang. Kazuki finds herself increasingly drawn to Hiroshi over time, but he soon becomes leader of the Nights and gets caught up in a conflict with a rival gang.

Release Date2014-08-16

Charactersd Kazuki Miyaichi

Vote Count14

Princess Jellyfish

Plain, timid and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete with roommates who harbor diehard hobbies that solidify their status as hopeless social rejects. These wallflowers run a tight, nun-like ship, but their no-men-allowed-not-no-one-not-no-how bubble is unwittingly burst after Tsukimi brings home a rescued sea jelly and a beauty queen... who's actually a guy. When the threat of losing their cozy convent inspires this glamour boy to turn the neurotic entourage into a portrait of success, will Tsukimi take her chance to bloom, or will she end up a hot mess?

Release Date2014-12-27

Charactersd Tsukimi Kurashita

Vote Count23

Ribbon

The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she had been working on for a year. In a whirlpool of emotions she clashes with her worried parents, her little sister overreacts to the virus and even her usually calm friend Hirai starts to build up frustration. In the middle of all that, she re-unites with Tanaka, who gave her the opportunity to absorb herself in painting, clashes with Hirai over their true feelings and tries to face her own future.

Release Date2022-02-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Itsuka

Vote Count6

The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn

Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists between heaven and earth. The inn is run by Nozomi Tenma, the proprietress. Her younger sister Kanae works as a dolphin trainer. Their mother Keiko is the inn's elder proprietress, who is still resentful of her ex-husband that deserted his wife and family.

Release Date2022-10-28

Charactersd Ogawa Tamae

Vote Count8

Hold Me Back

Mitsuko Kuroda is 31 years old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what to do, "A" gives her the right answers. She believes her happy and peaceful single life with "A" will continue, but she falls in love with Tada-kun. He is a salesperson and younger than her.

Release Date2020-12-18

Charactersd Mitsuko Kuroda

Vote Count48

Tales of the Bizarre: 2014 Spring Special

Release Date2014-04-05

Charactersd Kaoru Asahina

Vote Count3

Stardust over the Town

Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who pursues her dream of becoming a singer.

Release Date2020-03-06

Charactersd Ai Kumabe

Vote Count4

Avatar

Michiko lost her dad in a car accident when she was 10 years old. After the car accident, Michiko has lived with her mother Kyoko. Michiko, now in her 2nd year of high school, gets a cell phone from her mother as a birthday present. Michiko is so excited to have her very first cell phone. Soon afterwards, she is forced into joining social networking site "AvaQ" by classmate, and queen of the classroom, Taeko.

Release Date2011-04-30

Charactersd Rin Okubo

Vote Count33

As for Me

Kanako, a college senior, is torn between her unreliable ex Keishi and her steady new admirer Yoichi. As Keishi grows close to a freshman named Maiko, and Yoichi’s ex Aiko moves on, Kanako must decide what—and who—she really wants.

Release Date2025-03-14

Charactersd Juri Arimori

Vote Count4

The Hotel of My Dream

In 1984, an up-and-coming writer named Aida Taiju has her career crushed by off-hand criticism from an established author, Higashijujo-sensei. They end up holed up writing in the same hotel historically favoured by authors in the Jimbocho publishing district. Swearing revenge, Taiju makes Higashijujo miss his writing deadline by pretending to be a different person, and entangles her editor into the ruse. They become entangled in a long-lasting feud of revenge where Taiju uses her acting background and pretends to be various different women in order to have her revenge on Higashijujo or blackmail him. Based on a novel by Asako Yuzuki from 2012.

Release Date2024-12-27

Charactersd Aida Taiju

Vote Count3

G'mor Evian!

"Good Morning Everyone!" revolves around a family involved in the punk music scene. Aki is a former guitarist for a punk band. She became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter named Hatsuki. The mother and daughter live together happily, but they do have different personalities. A man named Yagu then enters their life. He is an ex-member of the punk band that Aki played with. Yagu has feelings for Aki.

Release Date2012-12-15

Charactersd Tomo

Vote Count4

陶王子 2万年の旅

陶王子 2万年の旅

Release Date2021-01-02

Charactersd vocal

Episode Count2

Get to the Punchline

Rumi Hayachine is a 2nd-year high school student living in Tono who loves to daydream about and draw supernatural spirits. One day, her beloved grandmother decides to move out saying, “I want to do what I want with my life.” At school, Rumi is pressured to think about her future but cannot decide what path she wants to take. When her best friend Kie says she wants to go to university in Tokyo, Rumi feels even more abandoned by everyone around her. However, Kie secretly submits a drawing made by Rumi into a contest, and it wins an award. This gives Rumi the extra bit of confidence she needs to find her path in life.

Release Date2019-10-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Rumi Hayachine

Vote Count4

Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o-

After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He also plans to hold a peace concert.

Release Date2013-01-26

Charactersd Kana Shiroma

I AM NON

YouTube Originals documentary on the making of "Get To The Punchline", the first film written and directed by Non (formerly, Nounen Rena). It covers the pre-production, 13-day shoot, and post-production of the film showing the wildly creative but inexperienced film-maker's struggles to make her first film.

Release Date2019-10-02

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Self

Episode Count[ 10 ]

Vote Count4

News Anchor

Promoted to lead anchor of a struggling news program, a journalist pushes the boundaries to investigate and expose truths others want buried.

Release Date2025-04-13

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

Summer Rescue

Summer Rescue

Release Date2012-07-08

Episode Count10

プレミアMelodiX!

プレミアMelodiX!

Release Date2013-01-08

Episode Count1

Scary Picture Book

Release Date2020-11-01

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

PRIDE×ORDER-警視庁公安部 presents 狙われる日本の技術-

Release Date2022-11-09

Episode Count3

Vote Count3

The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8

An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.

Release Date2020-07-31

Vote Count8

愛が世界を救います

Karafuru

Karafuru

Comedy variety show.

Release Date2020-09-11

Episode Count1

My Lover BEYOND

Release Date2022-03-15

私の恋人