Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#72938
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Kanon Miyahara 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.
Kanon Miyahara appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kanon. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates 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, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Koichi Sakamoto, Ryuta Tasaki, Eiichiro Hasumi, Kanon Miyahara 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.
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates (2021) as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur · Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix (2026) as Nozomi Takai · Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak (2024) as Clotho
Career snapshot
Ranked #72938 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
Average Nutevio score
7.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
Most frequent director
Koichi Sakamoto
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Koichi Sakamoto
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 6m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.6
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
7.1
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
8.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix, Shogun's Ninja, Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
8.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
8.1
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. BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja, Assassination Classroom.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 9.01 film |
| Action | 6.92 films | 8.15 films |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Megu Kataoka.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
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
2026Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix
The current state of the argument, as Nozomi Takai.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Nozomi Takai
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Clotho
Directed by Ryuta Tasaki
as Okyo
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Megu Kataoka
Directed by Eiichiro Hasumi
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The defining work
#1
Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates (2021)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Maiko / Maiko Minosaur gives Kanon Miyahara a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nozomi Takai
Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix (2026)
Performance score8.6
Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nozomi Takai is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clotho
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak (2024)
Performance score7.8
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clotho is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Okyo
Shogun's Ninja (2025)
Performance score7.3
Shogun's Ninja asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Okyo 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 Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
Start here. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates is the clearest statement of what Kanon Miyahara does — accessible, 15 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kanon 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.
Assassination Classroom (2015)
Keeps the action register of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak (2024)
Keeps the action register of Assassination Classroom but asks for a colder reading of it.
Shogun's Ninja (2025)
Keeps the action register of Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix (2026)
Same director as Shogun's Ninja, 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.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
5 films together
Notably Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
Eiichiro Hasumi
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
5 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of SoulmatesRyuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future DaybreakEiichiro Hasumi
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 ClassroomSix 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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja
as Uto
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
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. Kanon Miyahara 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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja
as Uto
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Special Chapter: Memory of Soulmates
as Maiko / Maiko Minosaur
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix
as Nozomi Takai
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix
as Nozomi Takai
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja
as Uto
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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