Harumi Hanayagi (花柳 はるみ, Hanayagi Harumi, 24 February 1896 – 11 October 1962) was a pioneering Japanese film and stage actress.

In 1915, Hanayagi became a student at the Geijutsuza, the modern theater troupe led by Hōgetsu Shimamura and Sumako Matsui, and made her stage debut.

[1] She moved to the Tōjisha troupe in 1917 and appeared with them in a series of films directed by Norimasa Kaeriyama for Tenkatsu, starting with The Glow of Life (released 1919).

[1] In an era where female roles on screen were played by male actors (onnagata), Hanayagi was considered "the first billed appearance of a female performer" in Japanese cinema,[2] even though actresses such as Nakamura Kasen had appeared in earlier films or in rensageki, a combination of film and live stage performance.

[3][4] After appearing in more films, she focused her career on the stage after 1920, eventually appearing in the Tsukiji Little Theater as well as the proletarian theater of Tomoyoshi Murayama.