Mei Kurokawa

Child actors who are still working in their late thirties are the exception, not the rule, and Mei Kurokawa is one of them. Born in Nishitokyo, Tokyo in 1987, she started young, went through Horikoshi High School — the school Japanese entertainment sends its working teenagers to — and simply kept going, across modelling, television drama and film. She never had the kind of explosive stardom that burns out a career in three years, which I suspect is exactly why the career is still here. Her run in the Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro haunted-house films is the part I find most telling: horror is unglamorous work that demands an actor sell fear without dialogue, and it tends to be handed to performers directors actually trust rather than to whoever is trending. There is also a small charming fact — her given name comes from May, the English name of her birth month. A career built on steadiness rather than spectacle, and better for it.

Name (English)

Mei Kurokawa

Name (Japanese)

黒川芽以

Reading

くろかわ めい

Born

May 13, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

Origin

Nishitōkyō-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Height

160 cm

Occupation

actor / fashion model / child actor

High school

Horikoshi High School

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mei%20Kurokawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%92%E5%B7%9D%E8%8A%BD%E4%BB%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1059711

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• fashion model
• child actor

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.