Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#363
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jun Fukuyama 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.
Jun Fukuyama appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jun. 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, 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, Katsuya Watanabe, Mitsuo Fukuda and others, Jun Fukuyama 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 Ultraman Mebius · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021) as Ultraman Mebius · How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020) as IV (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #363 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2018–2026
Career length
8 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
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Most frequent director
Bob Shirohata
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Bob Shirohata
Most common genre
Animation
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 26m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
7.0
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
7.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 20th: Fireball Booster, Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.7
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.7
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. Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, For Whom the Alchemist Exists, Laidbackers.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | — | 7.43 films |
| Action | 6.93 films | 7.79 films |
| Comedy | 7.04 films | 7.52 films |
| Crime | 7.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Where our catalogue meets this career, as King (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
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 Koro-sensei (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.
24 of 24 films
as Ultraman Mebius
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Ultraman Mebius
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as IV (voice)
Directed by Fumie Muroi
as Yūta Togashi (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Teacher (voice)
Directed by Yutaro Kubo
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The defining work
#1
Ultraman Mebius
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ultraman Mebius gives Jun Fukuyama a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ultraman Mebius
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ultraman Mebius is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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IV (voice)
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020)
Performance score9.5
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. IV (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yūta Togashi (voice)
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me (2018)
Performance score8.3
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yūta Togashi (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 Ultraman Mebius
Start here. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad is the clearest statement of what Jun Fukuyama 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 Jun 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.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me (2018)
Keeps the animation register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad but asks for a colder reading of it.
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
A deliberate change of key after How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Girl from the Other Side (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Takayuki Hamana
Director
2 films together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light
Bob Shirohata
Director
2 films together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 1
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me
Takuya Igarashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
Yasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Fuminori Kizaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Human Lost
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Laidbackers
Masanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Osomatsu the Movie
Fumie Muroi
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Yoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Concierge
Yutaro Kubo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Girl from the Other Side
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 20th: Fireball Booster
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.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together · 10.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined CrossroadBob Shirohata
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 1Takayuki Hamana
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by LightFumie Muroi
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story FilmTakuya Igarashi
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead AppleTatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On MeYutaro Kubo
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Girl from the Other SideKatsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 20th: Fireball BoosterAyataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingYasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the SkyMasaki 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 TimeMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMYoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConciergeYouichi Fujita
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Osomatsu the MovieMasanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Whom the Alchemist ExistsHiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LaidbackersFuminori Kizaki
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Human LostSix 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 Ultraman Mebius
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as IV (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as IV (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraman Mebius
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 Ultraman Mebius
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. Jun Fukuyama 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
22 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 Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Mebius
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Mebius
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as IV (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
as Hiramoto (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Mebius
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
as Nagi Ooshima / Ocean Dopant (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as IV (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Human Lost
as Takeichi (Voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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