Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#21404
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Atomu Mizuishi 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.
Atomu Mizuishi appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Atomu. GARO - Under the Moonbow is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yugo Sakamoto, Kyouhei Yamaguchi, Koichi Sakamoto and others, Atomu Mizuishi 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.
GARO - Under the Moonbow (2019) as Crow · Baby Assassins 3 (2024) as Mamoru Tasaka · Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream (2021) as Shigure Oshikiri · Kiramai Blue
Career snapshot
Ranked #21404 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2018–2024
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
GARO - Under the Moonbow
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
GARO - Under the Moonbow
Most frequent director
Yugo Sakamoto
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Yugo Sakamoto
Most common genre
Action
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.2
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
2020s
6.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Baby Assassins 3, Baby Assassins 2, The Key — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.2
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.2
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. GARO - Under the Moonbow, Inuyashiki, Yaru Onna: She's a Killer.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 4.32 films | 6.65 films |
| Action | 5.53 films | 7.010 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.31 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.13 films |
| Crime | — | 7.04 films |
| Horror | 8.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Inuyashiki
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tecchan [Classmate].
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.7 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
2024Baby Assassins 3
The current state of the argument, as Mamoru Tasaka.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Crow
Directed by Keita Amemiya
as Mamoru Tasaka
Directed by Yugo Sakamoto
as Shigure Oshikiri · Kiramai Blue
Directed by Kyouhei Yamaguchi
as Shigure Oshikiri / Kirama Blue
Directed by Kyouhei Yamaguchi
as Tecchan [Classmate]
Directed by Shinsuke Sato
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
Crow
GARO - Under the Moonbow (2019)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Crow gives Atomu Mizuishi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mamoru Tasaka
Baby Assassins 3 (2024)
Performance score8.2
Baby Assassins 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mamoru Tasaka is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shigure Oshikiri · Kiramai Blue
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream (2021)
Performance score7.8
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shigure Oshikiri · Kiramai Blue is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shigure Oshikiri / Kirama Blue
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO (2020)
Performance score7.7
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shigure Oshikiri / Kirama Blue 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 Crow
Start here. GARO - Under the Moonbow is the clearest statement of what Atomu Mizuishi does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Atomu 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.
Inuyashiki (2018)
Keeps the action register of GARO - Under the Moonbow but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO (2020)
Keeps the action register of Inuyashiki but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream (2021)
Same director as Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Baby Assassins 3 (2024)
Keeps the action register of Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
3 films together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream
Yugo Sakamoto
Director
3 films together
Notably Baby Assassins 3
Shinsuke Sato
Director
1 film together
Notably Inuyashiki
Keita Amemiya
Director
1 film together
Notably GARO - Under the Moonbow
Noriyoshi Sakuma
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Turn to Kill: The Movie
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS Ryusoulger
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop DreamYugo Sakamoto
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Baby Assassins 3Keita Amemiya
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GARO - Under the MoonbowShinsuke Sato
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InuyashikiKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS RyusoulgerRyuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero ChroniclesNoriyoshi Sakuma
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your Turn to Kill: The MovieSix 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
GARO - Under the Moonbow
as Crow
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Key
as Masaya Kimura
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
GARO - Under the Moonbow
as Crow
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
as Shiguru Oshikiri / Kiramai Blue
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
GARO - Under the Moonbow
as Crow
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. Atomu Mizuishi 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in action, 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
GARO - Under the Moonbow
as Crow
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
GARO - Under the Moonbow
as Crow
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Key
as Masaya Kimura
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Your Turn to Kill: The Movie
as Namitome Haruki
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
GARO - Under the Moonbow
as Crow
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy
as Alphonse Elric
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Baby Assassins 3
as Mamoru Tasaka
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream
as Shigure Oshikiri · Kiramai Blue
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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