Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1798
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hiroki Touchi 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.
Hiroki Touchi appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hiroki. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 action, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Kitamura, Shunsuke Nakashige, Sunghoo Park and others, Hiroki Touchi 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.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021) as Ultraseven · Blue Giant (2023) as Tyra (voice) · Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020) as Sugou Teppei (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1798 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Most frequent director
Naoyoshi Shiotani
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Naoyoshi Shiotani
Most common genre
Animation
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
2020s
7.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time, Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-, Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.4
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. BlackFox, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 6.61 film | 7.81 film |
| Action | 6.84 films | 7.06 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.72 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 6.84 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Appleseed Alpha
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Talos (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
The current state of the argument, as Chantha (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.
15 of 15 films
as Ultraseven
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Shirano (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
as Tyra (voice)
Directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa
as Sugou Teppei (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Taiga Shirakawa (voice) (archive footage)
Directed by Shunsuke Nakashige
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
Ultraseven
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ultraseven gives Hiroki Touchi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shirano (voice)
Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation (2024)
Performance score7.6
Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shirano (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tyra (voice)
Blue Giant (2023)
Performance score7.6
Blue Giant asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tyra (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sugou Teppei (voice)
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Performance score7.4
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sugou Teppei (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 Ultraseven
Start here. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad is the clearest statement of what Hiroki Touchi does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hiroki 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.
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blue Giant (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector but asks for a colder reading of it.
Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Blue Giant but asks for a colder reading of it.
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- (2024)
Keeps the action register of Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
5 films together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Shinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Appleseed Alpha
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Kazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together
Notably BlackFox
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Giant
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation
Shunsuke Nakashige
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-
Masaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
5 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined CrossroadYuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue GiantMasaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our TimeShunsuke Nakashige
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon DamnationShinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Appleseed AlphaKazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlackFoxTatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fairy Tail: Dragon CrySusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Bride of HalloweenHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYESix 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraseven
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Blue Giant
as Tyra (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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraseven
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Sugou Teppei (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraseven
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. Hiroki Touchi 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
15 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraseven
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraseven
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Blue Giant
as Tyra (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Psycho-Pass: Providence
as Teppei Sugo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraseven
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation
as Shirano (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE
as Dennis Kirchmann (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Appleseed Alpha
as Talos (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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