Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#77266
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Eiji Yoshitomi works on transformation 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.
Eiji Yoshitomi appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eiji. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, quiet performance, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for fantasy, animation, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yoshimi Itazu, Sunghoo Park, Shinya Watada and others, Eiji Yoshitomi 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.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) as Higher-Up (voice) · Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021) as (voice) · Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021) as Minister McGovern (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #77266 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2021–2023
Career length
2 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Most frequent director
Yoshimi Itazu
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yoshimi Itazu
Most common genre
Animation
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Concierge, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Hula Fulla Dance — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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. The Concierge, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Hula Fulla Dance.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 7.03 films |
| Action | 7.52 films |
| Comedy | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 7.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Higher-Up (voice). 7.8 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
2023The Concierge
The current state of the argument, as Maruki (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.
5 of 5 films
as Higher-Up (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
as (voice)
Directed by Kyohei Ishiguro
as Minister McGovern (voice)
Directed by Shukou Murase
as Maruki (voice)
Directed by Yoshimi Itazu
as Taxi Driver (voice)
Directed by Shinya Watada
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
Higher-Up (voice)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Higher-Up (voice) gives Eiji Yoshitomi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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(voice)
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021)
Performance score7.2
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Minister McGovern (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021)
Performance score7.1
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Minister McGovern (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Maruki (voice)
The Concierge (2023)
Performance score6.8
The Concierge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maruki (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 Higher-Up (voice)
Start here. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is the clearest statement of what Eiji Yoshitomi does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eiji 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.
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hula Fulla Dance (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Concierge (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Hula Fulla Dance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together
Notably Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Shukou Murase
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway
Shinya Watada
Director
1 film together
Notably Hula Fulla Dance
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Yoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Concierge
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words Bubble Up Like Soda PopShukou Murase
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam HathawayYoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConciergeShinya Watada
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hula Fulla DanceSix 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
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Higher-Up (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
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
as (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
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Higher-Up (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Higher-Up (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Higher-Up (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. Eiji Yoshitomi 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
5 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
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Higher-Up (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Higher-Up (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
as (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Concierge
as Maruki (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Higher-Up (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Higher-Up (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hula Fulla Dance
as Taxi Driver (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hula Fulla Dance
as Taxi Driver (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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