Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#30429
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Akari Takaishi works on versatility 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.
Akari Takaishi appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Akari. On Summer Sand is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for horror, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yuriyan Retriever, Shinya Tamada, Naoko Yamada and others, Akari Takaishi 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.
On Summer Sand (2025) as Yuko Kawakami · Baby Assassins 3 (2024) as Chisato Sugimoto · The Parades (2024) as Yasuko
Career snapshot
Ranked #30429 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2021–2026
Career length
5 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
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Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
On Summer Sand
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
On Summer Sand
Most frequent director
Yugo Sakamoto
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Yugo Sakamoto
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
2h 4m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.3
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
2020s
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Mag Mag, On Summer Sand, Ghost Killer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Mag Mag, On Summer Sand, Ghost Killer.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 7.29 films |
| Action | 7.05 films |
| Comedy | 7.24 films |
| Crime | 7.13 films |
| Romance | 7.22 films |
| Horror | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2021Baby Assassins
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chisato Sugimoto.
Career peak
2024Baby Assassins 3
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2025On Summer Sand
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Mag Mag
The current state of the argument, as Yui Teramoto.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Chisato Sugimoto
Directed by Yugo Sakamoto
as Yuko Kawakami
Directed by Shinya Tamada
as Fumika Matsuoka
Directed by Unknown
as Yui Teramoto
Directed by Yuriyan Retriever
as Kaya Saimori
Directed by Ayuko Tsukahara
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
Chisato Sugimoto
Baby Assassins 3 (2024)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Chisato Sugimoto gives Akari Takaishi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Yuko Kawakami
On Summer Sand (2025)
Performance score8.5
On Summer Sand asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yuko Kawakami is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fumika Matsuoka
Ghost Killer (2025)
Performance score7.9
Ghost Killer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fumika Matsuoka is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yui Teramoto
Mag Mag (2026)
Performance score7.5
Mag Mag asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yui Teramoto 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 Chisato Sugimoto
Start here. Baby Assassins 3 is the clearest statement of what Akari Takaishi does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Akari 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.
My Happy Marriage (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Baby Assassins 3 but asks for a colder reading of it.
On Summer Sand (2025)
Keeps the drama register of My Happy Marriage but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ghost Killer (2025)
A deliberate change of key after On Summer Sand — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mag Mag (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Ghost Killer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Yugo Sakamoto
Director
4 films together
Notably Baby Assassins 3
Hiroyuki Tsuji
Director
1 film together
Notably Unification of Japan: Kanto Edition
Hideo Jojo
Director
1 film together
Notably Sefure no Hinkaku: Ketsui
Ayuko Tsukahara
Director
1 film together
Notably My Happy Marriage
Michihito Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably The Parades
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably The Colors Within
Shinya Tamada
Director
1 film together
Notably On Summer Sand
Yuriyan Retriever
Director
1 film together
Notably Mag Mag
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yugo Sakamoto
Director
4 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Baby Assassins 3Shinya Tamada
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On Summer SandMichihito Fujii
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ParadesYuriyan Retriever
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mag MagAyuko Tsukahara
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Happy MarriageHideo Jojo
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sefure no Hinkaku: KetsuiNaoko Yamada
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Colors WithinHiroyuki Tsuji
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unification of Japan: Kanto EditionSix 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
Baby Assassins 3
as Chisato Sugimoto
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
My Happy Marriage
as Kaya Saimori
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
On Summer Sand
as Yuko Kawakami
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Parades
as Yasuko
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Baby Assassins 3
as Chisato Sugimoto
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. Akari Takaishi 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in drama, 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
On Summer Sand
as Yuko Kawakami
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Baby Assassins 3
as Chisato Sugimoto
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Colors Within
as Kimi Sakunaga (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Baby Assassins
as Chisato Sugimoto
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Baby Assassins 3
as Chisato Sugimoto
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Baby Assassins 3
as Chisato Sugimoto
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Baby Assassins 3
as Chisato Sugimoto
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ghost Killer
as Fumika Matsuoka
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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