Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#43877
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Gordon Maeda 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.
Gordon Maeda appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gordon. Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, adventure, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kenji Katagiri, Eiichiro Hasumi, Shigeaki Kubo and others, Gordon Maeda 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.
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM (2019) as Akira Hamabe · Tokyo Revengers (2021) as Takashi Mitsuya · Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid- (2026) as Hyakunosuke Ogata
Career snapshot
Ranked #43877 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
Most frequent director
Tsutomu Hanabusa
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Tsutomu Hanabusa
Most common genre
Action
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.4
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
2010s
7.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM — 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
7.9
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. Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM.
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 | — | 7.25 films |
| Action | — | 7.25 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | 7.91 film | 7.22 films |
| Crime | — | 7.23 films |
| Romance | 7.91 film | 7.21 film |
| Horror | — | 6.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Akira Hamabe. 7.9 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.
Most recent film
2026Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-
The current state of the argument, as Hyakunosuke Ogata.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Akira Hamabe
Directed by Takehiko Shinjo
as Hyakunosuke Ogata
Directed by Kenji Katagiri
as Takashi Mitsuya
Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa
as Hyakunosuke Ogata
Directed by Shigeaki Kubo
as Mori Nagayoshi
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
Akira Hamabe
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM (2019)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Akira Hamabe gives Gordon Maeda a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hyakunosuke Ogata
Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid- (2026)
Performance score7.8
Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hyakunosuke Ogata is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Takashi Mitsuya
Tokyo Revengers (2021)
Performance score7.6
Tokyo Revengers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Takashi Mitsuya is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hyakunosuke Ogata
Golden Kamuy (2024)
Performance score7.5
Golden Kamuy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hyakunosuke Ogata 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 Akira Hamabe
Start here. Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM is the clearest statement of what Gordon Maeda does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gordon 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.
Tokyo Revengers (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Golden Kamuy (2024)
Keeps the action register of Tokyo Revengers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Baban Baban Ban Vampire (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Golden Kamuy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid- (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Baban Baban Ban Vampire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
3 films together
Notably Tokyo Revengers
Eiichiro Hasumi
Director
2 films together
Notably Re/Member
Takehiko Shinjo
Director
1 film together
Notably Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
Shigeaki Kubo
Director
1 film together
Notably Golden Kamuy
Kenji Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Tokyo RevengersEiichiro Hasumi
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Re/MemberTakehiko Shinjo
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AMKenji Katagiri
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-Shigeaki Kubo
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Golden KamuySix 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
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
as Akira Hamabe
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Baban Baban Ban Vampire
as Mori Nagayoshi
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
as Akira Hamabe
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tokyo Revengers
as Takashi Mitsuya
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
as Akira Hamabe
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. Gordon Maeda 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
5 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
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
as Akira Hamabe
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Tokyo Revengers
as Takashi Mitsuya
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Baban Baban Ban Vampire
as Mori Nagayoshi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Re/Member
as Takahiro Ise
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-
as Hyakunosuke Ogata
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-
as Hyakunosuke Ogata
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Tokyo Revengers
as Takashi Mitsuya
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Re/Member
as Takahiro Ise
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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