Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#46866
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Arata Furuta 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.
Arata Furuta appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Arata. Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 romance, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eiji Uchida, Michihito Fujii, Takayuki Shibasaki and others, Arata Furuta 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.
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations (2021) as Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century · Promare (2019) as Deus Prometh (voice) · JUMP!!：The Heroes Behind the GOLD (2021) as Koichi Kanzaki
Career snapshot
Ranked #46866 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2013–2024
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
Most frequent director
Eiji Uchida
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Eiji Uchida
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.4
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Promare, Dragon Quest: Your Story, Space Pirate Captain Harlock — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Promare, Dragon Quest: Your Story, Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | — | 7.04 films |
| Action | 6.92 films | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.32 films |
| Romance | — | 6.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Yattaran (voice).
Highest rated performance
2021Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2023The Village
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2024Silent Love
The current state of the argument, as Ippei Kunita.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Shusaku Ohashi
Directed by Michihito Fujii
as Ippei Kunita
Directed by Eiji Uchida
as Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century
Directed by Takayuki Shibasaki
as Deus Prometh (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
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
Shusaku Ohashi
The Village (2023)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shusaku Ohashi gives Arata Furuta a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ippei Kunita
Silent Love (2024)
Performance score7.1
Silent Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ippei Kunita is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations (2021)
Performance score7.1
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Deus Prometh (voice)
Promare (2019)
Performance score7.0
Promare asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Deus Prometh (voice) 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 Shusaku Ohashi
Start here. The Village is the clearest statement of what Arata Furuta does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Arata 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.
Promare (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Village — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations (2021)
Keeps the action register of Promare but asks for a colder reading of it.
JUMP!!：The Heroes Behind the GOLD (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations but asks for a colder reading of it.
Silent Love (2024)
Keeps the drama register of JUMP!!：The Heroes Behind the GOLD but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Director
1 film together
Notably Promare
Takayuki Shibasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
Michihito Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably The Village
Eiji Uchida
Director
1 film together
Notably Silent Love
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Takayuki Shibasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider: Beyond GenerationsHiroyuki Imaishi
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PromareEiji Uchida
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Silent LoveMichihito Fujii
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The VillageShinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space Pirate Captain HarlockSix 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
Promare
as Deus Prometh (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
Silent Love
as Ippei Kunita
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
as Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Promare
as Deus Prometh (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Village
as Shusaku Ohashi
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. Arata Furuta 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
4 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
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
as Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
as Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Silent Love
as Ippei Kunita
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kappei
as Shihan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
as Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
as Hideo Momose / Kamen Rider Century
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dragon Quest: Your Story
as Mildrath (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Promare
as Deus Prometh (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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