Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#341
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Daisuke Namikawa 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.
Daisuke Namikawa appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daisuke. LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shota Goshozono, Ayataka Tanemura, Hiroyuki Seshita and others, Daisuke Namikawa 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.
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins (2025) as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond (2019) as Hotaru Haganezuka (voice) · LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline (2025) as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #341 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Most frequent director
Shota Goshozono
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Shota Goshozono
Most common genre
Animation
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 27m
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
6.3
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Lupin the Third: Goodbye Partner, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond, Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 4 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. Lupin the Third: Goodbye Partner, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond, Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | — | 7.63 films |
| Action | 6.84 films | 6.17 films |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 6.72 films |
| Crime | 6.62 films | 7.33 films |
| Romance | — | 7.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018K: Seven Stories Movie 6 - Circle Vision - Nameless Song
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Yashiro Isana.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
8.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Wolf (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.
14 of 14 films
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Gilbert Bougainvillea (voice)
Directed by Taichi Ishidate
as Hotaru Haganezuka (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Tomoya Sakaguchi (voice)
Directed by Tomotaka Shibayama
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Loading credits…
The defining work
#1
Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins (2025)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice) gives Daisuke Namikawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline (2025)
Performance score8.0
LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Gilbert Bougainvillea (voice)
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Performance score8.0
Violet Evergarden: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gilbert Bougainvillea (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Hotaru Haganezuka (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond (2019)
Performance score7.7
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hotaru Haganezuka (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
Start here. LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins is the clearest statement of what Daisuke Namikawa does — accessible, 55 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Daisuke 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.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond (2019)
Keeps the action register of LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins but asks for a colder reading of it.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Whisker Away (2020)
Keeps the romance register of Violet Evergarden: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline (2025)
Keeps the animation register of A Whisker Away but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hatsuki Tsuji
Director
1 film together
Notably Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond
Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Tomotaka Shibayama
Director
1 film together
Notably A Whisker Away
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's BondTaichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: The MovieTomotaka Shibayama
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Whisker AwayAyataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingShun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kakushigoto Theatrical EditionHatsuki Tsuji
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lupin the Third: Prison of the PastHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYEShota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: ExecutionSix 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
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Gilbert Bougainvillea (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
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Gilbert Bougainvillea (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
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
as Lord El-Melloi II (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (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. Daisuke Namikawa 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in animation, 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond
as Hotaru Haganezuka (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Whisker Away
as Tomoya Sakaguchi (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Whisker Away
as Tomoya Sakaguchi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
If you like this performer
Tom Hanks
Built a career in the same territory: animation and comedy
Bonnie Hunt
Built a career in the same territory: animation and comedy
Matt Damon
Built a career in the same territory: adventure and drama
Michael Caine
Built a career in the same territory: adventure and drama
Harvey Keitel
Built a career in the same territory: comedy and adventure
Tom Wilkinson
Built a career in the same territory: comedy and adventure
Have your say
Community
Which Daisuke Namikawa performance holds up best?
Our readers argue about this one. Make your case, or read the ranked debate already in progress.
Join the conversation
Reference
Continue exploring
Trending performers
Directors they work with
Collections to read next
