Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1476
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Fumihiko Tachiki represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Fumihiko is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Fumihiko Tachiki appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Fumihiko. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved is the clearest case: a film rated 8.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tatsuya Ishihara, Yuzuru Tachikawa, Shinji Higuchi and others, Fumihiko Tachiki 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.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025) as Kimun Kamui (voice) · Gintama: The Very Final (2021) as Taizou Hasegawa (voice) · Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) as Gendo Ikari (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1476 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1997–2025
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.9
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Most frequent director
Kazuya Tsurumaki
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kazuya Tsurumaki
Most common genre
Animation
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.8
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
1990s
8.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
8.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
8.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 1990s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 8.01 film | 7.52 films |
| Action | 8.01 film | 7.55 films |
| Comedy | — | 8.91 film |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gendo Ikari (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2025Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
8.9 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. The current state of the argument, as Kimun Kamui (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.
9 of 9 films
as Kimun Kamui (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Gendo Ikari (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
as Taizou Hasegawa (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
as Gendo Ikari (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
as Sakazuki (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Kimun Kamui (voice)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kimun Kamui (voice) gives Fumihiko Tachiki a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gendo Ikari (voice)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Performance score8.0
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gendo Ikari (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Taizou Hasegawa (voice)
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Performance score7.9
Gintama: The Very Final asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Taizou Hasegawa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gendo Ikari (voice)
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
Performance score7.6
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gendo Ikari (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 Kimun Kamui (voice)
Start here. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved is the clearest statement of what Fumihiko Tachiki does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 8.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Fumihiko 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.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Keeps the fantasy register of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Keeps the action register of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion but asks for a colder reading of it.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
Keeps the action register of Gintama: The Very Final but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Piece Film Red (2022)
Keeps the action register of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Takayuki Shibasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Shinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbirds 55/GOGO
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of EvangelionTatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 8.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be lovedChizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama: The Very FinalTakayuki 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 GenerationsYuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Black Iron SubmarineShinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbirds 55/GOGOSix 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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Kimun Kamui (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
One Piece Film Red
as Sakazuki (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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Kimun Kamui (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
One Piece Film Red
as Sakazuki (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Kimun Kamui (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. Fumihiko Tachiki 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
28 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
7 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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Kimun Kamui (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gintama: The Very Final
as Taizou Hasegawa (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
One Piece Film Red
as Sakazuki (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
as Vodka (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Gintama: The Very Final
as Taizou Hasegawa (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
One Piece Film Red
as Sakazuki (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
One Piece Film Red
as Sakazuki (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Kimun Kamui (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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