Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#317
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Junichi Suwabe 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.
Junichi Suwabe appears in 31 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Junichi. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! 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, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, science fiction, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shukou Murase, Shojiro Nakazawa, Shota Goshozono and others, Junichi Suwabe 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.
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025) as Tanaka (voice) · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021) as Absolute Tartarus · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021) as Absolute Tartarus
Career snapshot
Ranked #317 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
31
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Most frequent director
Shukou Murase
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shukou Murase
Most common genre
Animation
29 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
7.0
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
6.8
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Lupin the Third: Goodbye Partner, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Lupin the Third: Goodbye Partner, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly.
Most productive era
2020s
20 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 | 6.63 films | 7.18 films |
| Action | 6.87 films | 6.914 films |
| Comedy | 7.23 films | 10.01 film |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 7.13 films |
| Romance | 7.04 films | 7.71 film |
| Horror | — | 7.01 film |
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 Briareos Hecatonchires (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
2026No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger
The current state of the argument, as Decotrade (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.
31 of 31 films
as Tanaka (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Absolute Tartarus
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Absolute Tartarus
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Irie Kazumichi (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Yami Sukehiro (voice)
Directed by Ayataka Tanemura
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
Tanaka (voice)
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tanaka (voice) gives Junichi Suwabe a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Absolute Tartarus
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Absolute Tartarus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Absolute Tartarus
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. Absolute Tartarus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Irie Kazumichi (voice)
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Performance score7.9
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Irie Kazumichi (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 Tanaka (voice)
Start here. You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! is the clearest statement of what Junichi Suwabe does — accessible, 71 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Junichi 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 action register of You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Same director as Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
Keeps the action 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.
Tomonori Sudo
Director
2 films together
Notably Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Shukou Murase
Director
2 films together
Notably MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Shinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Appleseed Alpha
Masaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together
Notably No Game No Life: Zero
Takuya Igarashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja
Jouji Furuta
Director
1 film together
Notably Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
Gen Urobuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Shingo Natsume
Director
1 film together
Notably ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
Hiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together
Notably BEM: BECOME HUMAN
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Uta no Prince-sama Maji LOVE Starish Tours
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
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
Shunsuke Ishikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-
Hiro Kaburagi
Director
1 film together
Notably GREAT PRETENDER razbliuto
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Chris Huang
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger
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 CrossroadShukou Murase
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
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph CirceTomonori Sudo
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
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring SongShunsuke 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 1Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!Takuya 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 AppleKenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorShunsuke Ishikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-Ayataka 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 KingAtsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Game No Life: ZeroMasaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night Is Short, Walk On GirlShingo Natsume
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - RegardsMitsuo 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 FREEDOMYuzuru 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 SubmarineHiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BEM: BECOME HUMANShinji 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 AlphaHiro Kaburagi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GREAT PRETENDER razbliutoHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Godzilla: City on the Edge of BattleJouji Furuta
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE KingdomShota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: ExecutionChris Huang
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final ChapterJumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman NinjaChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Uta no Prince-sama Maji LOVE Starish ToursGen Urobuchi
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the WestShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS BoonboomgerSix 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 Absolute Tartarus
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tanaka (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 Absolute Tartarus
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 Absolute Tartarus
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tanaka (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. Junichi Suwabe 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
29 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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tanaka (voice)
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 Absolute Tartarus
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tanaka (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
as Groshular (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tanaka (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tanaka (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Tanaka (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Appleseed Alpha
as Briareos Hecatonchires (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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