Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1202
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hisako Kanemoto 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.
Hisako Kanemoto appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hisako. Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Kitamura, Yasuhito Kikuchi, Yohei Kameyama and others, Hisako Kanemoto 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.
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026) as Akane (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021) as Ami Mizuno / Eternal Sailor Mercury (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021) as Ami Mizuno / Super Sailor Mercury (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1202 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
Most frequent director
Tomoya Takahashi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tomoya Takahashi
Most common genre
Animation
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.2
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, BanG Dream! FILM LIVE, Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.1
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. Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, BanG Dream! FILM LIVE, Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | — | 4.63 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 7.15 films |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.74 films |
| Romance | — | 6.73 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2011Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Asuna Watase (voice). Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2026Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026BanG Dream! 10th Anniversary LIVE「In the name of BanG Dream!」
The current state of the argument, as Hazawa Tsugumi.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Ami Mizuno / Super Sailor Mercury (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Ami Mizuno / Eternal Sailor Mercury (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Asuna Watase (voice)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
as Akane (voice)
Directed by Yohei Kameyama
as Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury (voice)
Directed by Tomoya Takahashi
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
Ami Mizuno / Super Sailor Mercury (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ami Mizuno / Super Sailor Mercury (voice) gives Hisako Kanemoto a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ami Mizuno / Eternal Sailor Mercury (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Performance score7.6
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ami Mizuno / Eternal Sailor Mercury (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Asuna Watase (voice)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
Performance score7.6
Children Who Chase Lost Voices asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asuna Watase (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Akane (voice)
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026)
Performance score7.5
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Akane (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 Ami Mizuno / Super Sailor Mercury (voice)
Start here. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 is the clearest statement of what Hisako Kanemoto does — accessible, 81 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hisako 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.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Keeps the fantasy register of Children Who Chase Lost Voices but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026)
Keeps the adventure register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hideki Ito
Director
2 films together
Notably Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together
Notably BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd Stage
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Kazuaki Imai
Director
1 film together
Notably Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Kohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Yohei Kameyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
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.
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd StageHideki Ito
Director
2 films together · 3.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange VisitorYohei Kameyama
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the MovieMakoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Children Who Chase Lost VoicesKazuaki Imai
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure IslandMasaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our TimeYasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Kohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Hiroyuki 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
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the StarsSix 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
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
as Asuna Watase (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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury (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
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
as Akane (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
as (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1
as Ami Mizuno / Super Sailor Mercury (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. Hisako Kanemoto 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
16 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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1
as Ami Mizuno / Super Sailor Mercury (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
as Akane (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor
as Mitsumi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
as Akane (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
as Akane (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
as Elmesia (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE
as Tsugumi Hazawa (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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