Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4982
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kenji Nojima 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.
Kenji Nojima appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kenji. Me & Roboco: The Movie 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, animation, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Akitaro Daichi, Tomoya Takahashi, Naoyoshi Shiotani and others, Kenji Nojima 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.
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025) as Left (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021) as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023) as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4982 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2015–2025
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Most frequent director
Naoyoshi Shiotani
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Naoyoshi Shiotani
Most common genre
Animation
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
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
6.5
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian, Dou kyu sei – Classmates — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
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. Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian, Dou kyu sei – Classmates.
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 | — | 6.84 films |
| Action | 7.01 film | 7.65 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.23 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 7.32 films |
| Romance | 7.71 film | 7.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nobuchika Ginoza (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
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. The current state of the argument, as Left (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.
16 of 16 films
as Left (voice)
Directed by Akitaro Daichi
as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
Directed by Tomoya Takahashi
as Rihito Sajo (voice)
Directed by Shoko Nakamura
as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
Directed by Tomoya Takahashi
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
Left (voice)
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Left (voice) gives Kenji Nojima a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Performance score8.2
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rihito Sajo (voice)
Dou kyu sei – Classmates (2016)
Performance score8.2
Dou kyu sei – Classmates asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rihito Sajo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Performance score7.9
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (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 Left (voice)
Start here. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Kenji Nojima does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kenji 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.
Dou kyu sei – Classmates (2016)
Keeps the animation register of Me & Roboco: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Dou kyu sei – Classmates but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1 (2023)
Same director as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2, 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.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
5 films together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
Shoko Nakamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Dou kyu sei – Classmates
Toshifumi Akai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon
Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Me & Roboco: The Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
5 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorChiaki Kon
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeShunsuke 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 1Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me & Roboco: The MovieShoko Nakamura
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dou kyu sei – ClassmatesToshifumi Akai
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: SolomonSix 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
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Ginoza Nobuchika (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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Left (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
as Kesserling, Rupert
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Left (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. Kenji Nojima 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
16 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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Left (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Psycho-Pass: Providence
as Nobuchika Ginoza (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon
as Marisbury Animusphere (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Natsuya Kirishima (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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