Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2658
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Emiko Takeuchi works on emotional range 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.
Emiko Takeuchi appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Emiko. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- 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 emotional range, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, music, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Keiichiro Saito, Takashi Katagiri, Mamoru Hatakeyama and others, Emiko Takeuchi 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.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022) as Student (voice) · I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018) as Old Lady (voice) · SPY x FAMILY CODE: White (2023) as Masked Woman (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2658 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
2018–2024
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Average Nutevio score
7.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Most frequent director
Keiichiro Saito
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Keiichiro Saito
Most common genre
Animation
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.7
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
7.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
8.2
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. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 7.91 film | — |
| Action | — | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.43 films |
| Romance | 7.91 film | 8.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Old Lady (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
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
2024BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
The current state of the argument, as Office Worker's Wife (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.
4 of 4 films
as Student (voice)
Directed by Mamoru Hatakeyama
as Old Lady (voice)
Directed by Shinichiro Ushijima
as Masked Woman (voice)
Directed by Takashi Katagiri
as Office Worker's Wife (voice)
Directed by Keiichiro Saito
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
Student (voice)
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Student (voice) gives Emiko Takeuchi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Old Lady (voice)
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Performance score7.7
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Old Lady (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Masked Woman (voice)
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White (2023)
Performance score7.1
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Masked Woman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Office Worker's Wife (voice)
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1 (2024)
Performance score6.8
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Office Worker's Wife (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 Student (voice)
Start here. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- is the clearest statement of what Emiko Takeuchi does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Emiko 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.
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Keeps the romance register of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- but asks for a colder reading of it.
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White (2023)
Keeps the animation register of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas but asks for a colder reading of it.
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1 (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of SPY x FAMILY CODE: White but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shinichiro Ushijima
Director
1 film together
Notably I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Mamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Keiichiro Saito
Director
1 film together
Notably BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-Shinichiro Ushijima
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Want to Eat Your PancreasTakashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SPY x FAMILY CODE: WhiteKeiichiro Saito
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1Six 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
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Old Lady (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
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Old Lady (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
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Student (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Student (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Student (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. Emiko Takeuchi 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
4 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
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Student (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Student (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Old Lady (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Student (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
as Masked Woman (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
as Masked Woman (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
as Office Worker's Wife (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
as Office Worker's Wife (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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