Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11473
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Kanna Hashimoto 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.
Kanna Hashimoto appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kanna. Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 animation, war, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Fumitoshi Oizaki, Shinsuke Sato, Eiichiro Hasumi and others, Kanna Hashimoto 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.
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls (2026) as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao) · Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM (2019) as Hinana Hanazawa · Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny (2023) as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11473 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
Most frequent director
Shinsuke Sato
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Shinsuke Sato
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.3
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM, Kingdom, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM, Kingdom, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 6.82 films | 6.32 films |
| Action | 7.32 films | 7.15 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.03 films |
| Comedy | 7.53 films | 6.52 films |
| Crime | — | 6.22 films |
| Romance | 7.72 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.84 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011I Wish
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kanna.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2026Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao).
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.
18 of 18 films
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Directed by Shinsuke Sato
as Hinana Hanazawa
Directed by Takehiko Shinjo
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Directed by Shinsuke Sato
as Kaguya Shinomiya
Directed by Hayato Kawai
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Directed by Shinsuke Sato
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
Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls (2026)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao) gives Kanna Hashimoto a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hinana Hanazawa
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM (2019)
Performance score8.2
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hinana Hanazawa is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny (2023)
Performance score7.8
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kaguya Shinomiya
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019)
Performance score7.8
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kaguya Shinomiya 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 Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Start here. Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls is the clearest statement of what Kanna Hashimoto does — accessible, 133 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kanna 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.
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kingdom 2: Far and Away (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Kaguya-sama: Love Is War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny (2023)
Same director as Kingdom 2: Far and Away, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shinsuke Sato
Director
5 films together
Notably Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
Eiichiro Hasumi
Director
3 films together
Notably Assassination Classroom
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Director
1 film together
Notably I Wish
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Suicidal Teens
Hayato Kawai
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Takehiko Shinjo
Director
1 film together
Notably Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
Toichiro Ruto
Director
1 film together
Notably The Violence Action
Hideo Nakata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Forbidden Play
Fumitoshi Oizaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Sgt. Frog
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shinsuke Sato
Director
5 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kingdom 5: The Clash of SoulsEiichiro Hasumi
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Assassination ClassroomTakehiko Shinjo
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Come Kiss Me at 0:00AMHayato Kawai
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaguya-sama: Love Is WarHirokazu Kore-eda
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I WishYukihiko Tsutsumi
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
12 Suicidal TeensToichiro Ruto
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Violence ActionHideo Nakata
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Forbidden PlayFumitoshi Oizaki
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sgt. FrogSix 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
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
as Kaguya Shinomiya
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Assassination Classroom
as Ritsu
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
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. Kanna Hashimoto 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
7 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
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
as Kaguya Shinomiya
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
12 Suicidal Teens
as Ryoko
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kingdom: Return of the Great General
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kingdom
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Kingdom 2: Far and Away
as Ka Ryo Ten (He Liao Diao)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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