Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#331
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Katsuyuki Konishi 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.
Katsuyuki Konishi appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Katsuyuki. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Haruo Sotozaki, Chris Huang, Ryuta Tasaki and others, Katsuyuki Konishi 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.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023) as Tengen Uzui (voice) · Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Tengen Uzui (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as Tengen Uzui (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #331 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2018–2025
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Most frequent director
Haruo Sotozaki
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Haruo Sotozaki
Most common genre
Animation
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 21m
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
6.4
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
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl, Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. For Whom the Alchemist Exists, Laidbackers, Promare.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 5.51 film | 6.63 films |
| Action | 6.85 films | 7.511 films |
| Comedy | 5.51 film | — |
| Romance | — | 4.01 film |
| Horror | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gilbaris (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
8.7 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
2025Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter
The current state of the argument, as Retsuma Gen (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.
22 of 22 films
as Tengen Uzui (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Mr. Elegance (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Tengen Uzui (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Tengen Uzui (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Gotchardriver / Valvaradriver (voice)
Directed by Ryuta Tasaki
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
Tengen Uzui (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tengen Uzui (voice) gives Katsuyuki Konishi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mr. Elegance (voice)
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl (2025)
Performance score8.2
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Elegance (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tengen Uzui (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tengen Uzui (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tengen Uzui (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Performance score7.8
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tengen Uzui (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 Tengen Uzui (voice)
Start here. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc is the clearest statement of what Katsuyuki Konishi does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Katsuyuki 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Same director as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak (2024)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl (2025)
Keeps the action register of Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Keeps the action register of VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
3 films together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Director
2 films together
Notably Promare / Side: Galo
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably My Tyrano: Together, Forever
Tatsumi Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably Promare / Side: Lio
Gen Urobuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Laidbackers
Masanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Hiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together
Notably BEM: BECOME HUMAN
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably The World's Greatest First Love: Proposal
Shin Oonuma
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless Girl
Hiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage
Takayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark Witch
Akira Amemiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Gridman Universe
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
Chris Huang
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
3 films together · 8.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Hiroyuki Imaishi
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
Promare / Side: GaloRyuta 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 DaybreakAkira Amemiya
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gridman UniverseAyataka 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 KingKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!Hiroshi 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 HUMANTatsumi Fujii
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Promare / Side: LioKobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Tyrano: Together, ForeverChris 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 ChapterShin Oonuma
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless GirlHiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star SageMasanori 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
LaidbackersGen 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 WestTakayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark WitchTomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The World's Greatest First Love: ProposalSix 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tengen Uzui (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
Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West
as Líng Yá (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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tengen Uzui (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
as Gotchardriver / Valvaradriver (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tengen Uzui (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. Katsuyuki Konishi 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
20 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tengen Uzui (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tengen Uzui (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The World's Greatest First Love: Proposal
as Takano, Masamune (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
My Tyrano: Together, Forever
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Tengen Uzui (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
as Gotchardriver / Valvaradriver (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West
as Líng Yá (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
as Staff Officer (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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