Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7593
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hirofumi Nojima 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.
Hirofumi Nojima appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hirofumi. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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 comedy, animation, war. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Akitaro Daichi, Shunsuke Tada, Kenji Nagasaki and others, Hirofumi Nojima 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.
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025) as Right (voice) · My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021) as Alan Kay (voice) · Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007) as Reiji Namikawa (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7593 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2007–2025
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Most frequent director
Shunsuke Tada
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shunsuke Tada
Most common genre
Animation
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 20m
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
2000s
7.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God.
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 | 2000s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.41 film | 6.11 film |
| Action | — | 7.61 film |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.92 films |
| Crime | 7.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Reiji Namikawa (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
8.7 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 Right (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.
6 of 6 films
as Right (voice)
Directed by Akitaro Daichi
as Alan Kay (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Reiji Namikawa (voice)
Directed by Tetsuro Araki
as Akatsuki Izumo (voice)
Directed by Takahiro Natori
as Cornelius Lutz
Directed by Shunsuke Tada
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
Right (voice)
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Right (voice) gives Hirofumi Nojima a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alan Kay (voice)
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Performance score7.4
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alan Kay (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reiji Namikawa (voice)
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007)
Performance score7.2
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reiji Namikawa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Akatsuki Izumo (voice)
Aria the Benedizione (2021)
Performance score7.0
Aria the Benedizione asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Akatsuki Izumo (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 Right (voice)
Start here. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Hirofumi Nojima does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hirofumi 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.
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007)
Keeps the animation register of Me & Roboco: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God but asks for a colder reading of it.
Aria the Benedizione (2021)
Keeps the science fiction register of My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1 (2022)
Keeps the science fiction register of Aria the Benedizione but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Tetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
Takahiro Natori
Director
1 film together
Notably Aria the Benedizione
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Me & Roboco: The Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together · 3.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me & Roboco: The MovieKenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' MissionTetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a GodTakahiro Natori
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aria the BenedizioneSix 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
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
as Reiji Namikawa (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
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
as Reiji Namikawa (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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Right (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Alan Kay (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Right (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. Hirofumi Nojima 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
6 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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Right (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Right (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
as Reiji Namikawa (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
as Reiji Namikawa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Alan Kay (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Alan Kay (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
as Reiji Namikawa (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
as Cornelius Lutz
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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