Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9650
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Hiroshi Tsuchida works on transformation 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.
Hiroshi Tsuchida appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hiroshi. Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age 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 transformation, versatility, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Koichi Sakamoto, Liao Chengzhi, Yuzuru Tachikawa and others, Hiroshi Tsuchida 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.
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age (2024) as Saizou / Ninja Blue · Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top Movie (2024) as Okita Trainer (voice) · Her Blue Sky (2019) as Dankichi Band's Keyboardist (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #9650 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2019–2024
Career length
5 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
Average Nutevio score
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
Most frequent director
Koichi Sakamoto
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Koichi Sakamoto
Most common genre
Action
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
7.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age, Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top Movie, Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.5
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.5
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. Her Blue Sky, BlackFox.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | 6.62 films |
| Action | 6.61 film | 7.33 films |
| Comedy | — | 9.22 films |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 7.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Her Blue Sky
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dankichi Band's Keyboardist (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
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
2024Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top Movie
The current state of the argument, as Okita Trainer (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 Saizou / Ninja Blue
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Okita Trainer (voice)
Directed by Liao Chengzhi
as Dankichi Band's Keyboardist (voice)
Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai
as Hans (voice)
Directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa
as Allen (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Nomura
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
Saizou / Ninja Blue
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age (2024)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Saizou / Ninja Blue gives Hiroshi Tsuchida a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Okita Trainer (voice)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top Movie (2024)
Performance score8.0
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Okita Trainer (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dankichi Band's Keyboardist (voice)
Her Blue Sky (2019)
Performance score7.2
Her Blue Sky asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dankichi Band's Keyboardist (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hans (voice)
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (2023)
Performance score6.9
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hans (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Saizou / Ninja Blue
Start here. Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age is the clearest statement of what Hiroshi Tsuchida does — accessible, 32 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hiroshi 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.
Her Blue Sky (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
BlackFox (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Her Blue Sky but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (2023)
Keeps the action register of BlackFox but asks for a colder reading of it.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top Movie (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kazuya Nomura
Director
1 film together
Notably BlackFox
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably Her Blue Sky
Masayoshi Takesue
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to Beyond
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Liao Chengzhi
Director
1 film together
Notably Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top Movie
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi 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
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle AgeLiao Chengzhi
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top MovieTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Her Blue SkyYuzuru 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 SubmarineKazuya 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
BlackFoxMasayoshi Takesue
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to BeyondSix 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
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
as Saizou / Ninja Blue
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Her Blue Sky
as Dankichi Band's Keyboardist (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
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
as Saizou / Ninja Blue
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
as Hans (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
as Saizou / Ninja Blue
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. Hiroshi Tsuchida 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
4 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
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
as Saizou / Ninja Blue
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
as Saizou / Ninja Blue
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Her Blue Sky
as Dankichi Band's Keyboardist (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
as Hans (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: The Fights of Middle Age
as Saizou / Ninja Blue
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to Beyond
as Hanejiro (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top Movie
as Okita Trainer (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Her Blue Sky
as Dankichi Band's Keyboardist (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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