Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#51463
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Ai Furihata works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ai Furihata appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ai. Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, music, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Hiroyuki Hata, Masanori Takahashi, Kazuo Sakai, Ai Furihata helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022) as Momoi Airi (voice) · COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025) as Airi Momoi (voice) · Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow (2019) as Ruby Kurosawa (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #51463 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2019–2025
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
Average Nutevio score
4.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
Most frequent director
Hiroyuki Hata
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Hiroyuki Hata
Most common genre
Music
5 titles
Average runtime
2h 53m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. For Whom the Alchemist Exists, Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. For Whom the Alchemist Exists, Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow.
Most productive era
2020s
4 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 8.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lizbeth Finn Lustburg (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
The current state of the argument, as Airi Momoi (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
6 of 6 films
as Airi Momoi (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Hata
as Ruby Kurosawa (voice)
Directed by Kazuo Sakai
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Momoi Airi (voice)
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Momoi Airi (voice) gives Ai Furihata a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Airi Momoi (voice)
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Performance score7.9
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Airi Momoi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ruby Kurosawa (voice)
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow (2019)
Performance score6.6
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ruby Kurosawa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ruby Kurosawa
Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours EXTRA LoveLive! ~DREAMY CONCERT 2021~ (2022)
Performance score6.5
Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours EXTRA LoveLive! ~DREAMY CONCERT 2021~ asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ruby Kurosawa is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Momoi Airi (voice)
Start here. Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - is the clearest statement of what Ai Furihata does — accessible, 125 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ai at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow (2019)
Keeps the music register of Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - but asks for a colder reading of it.
Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours EXTRA LoveLive! ~DREAMY CONCERT 2021~ (2022)
Keeps the music register of Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow but asks for a colder reading of it.
Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours 6th LoveLive! ~KU-RU-KU-RU Rock 'n' Roll TOUR~ ＜SUNNY STAGE＞ (2022)
Same director as Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours EXTRA LoveLive! ~DREAMY CONCERT 2021~, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Keeps the music register of Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours 6th LoveLive! ~KU-RU-KU-RU Rock 'n' Roll TOUR~ ＜SUNNY STAGE＞ but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kazuo Sakai
Director
1 film together
Notably Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow
Masanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Hiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together
Notably COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't SingKazuo Sakai
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the RainbowMasanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Whom the Alchemist ExistsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Momoi Airi (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
as Airi Momoi (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Momoi Airi (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Momoi Airi (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Momoi Airi (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Ai Furihata has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Music Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in music, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Momoi Airi (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Momoi Airi (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
as Airi Momoi (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
For Whom the Alchemist Exists
as Lizbeth Finn Lustburg (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Momoi Airi (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
For Whom the Alchemist Exists
as Lizbeth Finn Lustburg (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow
as Ruby Kurosawa (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow
as Ruby Kurosawa (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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