Personal Info
Birth date
1993-07-13 (32 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kamikawa, Hyogo, Japan
Also known as
Rena Nônen
Rena Nounen
노넨 레나
能年玲奈
Non
Biography
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.
Filmography
News Anchor
8
Overview:
Promoted to lead anchor of a struggling news program, a journalist pushes the boundaries to investigate and expose truths others want buried.
Happy Kanako's Killer Life
8.438
Overview:
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?!
Pokémon Concierge
7.6
Overview:
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?
Bullet Train Explosion
6.933
Overview:
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.
Amachan
8.3
Overview:
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.
Miss Mirai
6.8
Overview:
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.
I AM NON
8.2
Overview:
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.
Confessions
7.6
Overview:
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.
In This Corner of the World
7.9
Overview:
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…
After the Quake
NYR
Overview:
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.
Hot Road
6.7
Overview:
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.
Princess Jellyfish
7.2
Overview:
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?
The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8
5.6
Overview:
An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.
By Rule of Crow's Thumb
6.6
Overview:
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.
The Fish Tale
7.5
Overview:
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.
The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn
7.7
Overview:
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.
G'mor Evian!
6
Overview:
"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.
Hold Me Back
6.3
Overview:
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.
Avatar
5.4
Overview:
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.
The Hotel of my Dream
8.5
Overview:
This film is adapted from the novel of the same name, which tells the story of a new writer, Kayo Nakajima, who debuted with the worst debut in history by winning an award with a former idol. Afterwards, she was caught in a series of troubles, such as "having her single volume of books blocked from publication", "quarreling with a well-known writer", and "being betrayed by the editor".However, eventually, Kayo gradually opened up a path of her own with her ambition and wonderful creativity.
Ribbon
7.3
Overview:
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.
Stardust Over The Town
6
Overview:
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.
After the Quake
NYR
Overview:
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).
Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o-
NYR
Overview:
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.Acting
TBA私の恋人 as Unknown
TBA愛が世界を救います as Unknown
2025After the Quake as (voice)
2025MISS KING (1 Episode) as Asuka
2025Bullet Train Explosion as Chika Matsumoto
2025News Anchor (1 Episode) as Unknown
2025After the Quake (1 Episode) as Voice
2025Happy Kanako's Killer Life (6 Episodes) as Kanako Nishino
2024The Hotel of my Dream as Nakajima Kayoko
2023Pokémon Concierge (4 Episodes) as Haru (voice)
2022PRIDE×ORDER－警視庁公安部 presents 狙われる日本の技術－ (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2022The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn as Ogawa Tamae
2022The Fish Tale as Meebo
2022My Lover BEYOND as Unknown
2022Ribbon as Itsuka
2021陶王子 2万年の旅 (2 Episodes) as vocal
2020Hold Me Back as Mitsuko Kuroda
2020Scary Picture Book (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2020Karafuru (1 Episode) as Unknown
2020The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 as Unknown
2020Stardust Over The Town as Ai Kumabe
2019Get to the Punchline as Rumi Hayachine
2019I AM NON (10 Episodes) as Self
2018Miss Mirai (5 Episodes) as Konno Mirai
2016In This Corner of the World as Suzu Hojo (voice)
2014Princess Jellyfish as Tsukimi Kurashita
2014Hot Road as Kazuki Miyaichi
2014Tales of the Bizarre: 2014 Spring Special as Kaoru Asahina, Unknown
2013Amachan (157 Episodes) as 天野秋
2013Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o- as Kana Shiroma
2012G'mor Evian! as Tomo
2012By Rule of Crow's Thumb as Mahiro
2012Summer Rescue (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2011Avatar as Rin Okubo
2010Confessions as Shuka Kiritani
Editing
2019Get to the Punchline ... Editor
Creator
2019I AM NON ... Creator