Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1578
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kensho Ono 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.
Kensho Ono appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kensho. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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, Yohei Kameyama, Ai Yoshimura and others, Kensho Ono 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.
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- (2026) as Kozo Tsuguta (voice) · Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026) as Asami (voice) · A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016) as Tomohiro Nagatsuka (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1578 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
Average Nutevio score
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
Most frequent director
Shukou Murase
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shukou Murase
Most common genre
Animation
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
6.9
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
8.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, A Silent Voice: The Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
8.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
8.3
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. Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, A Silent Voice: The Movie.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 8.31 film | 7.56 films |
| Action | 8.11 film | 7.64 films |
| Comedy | 8.11 film | 7.53 films |
| Romance | 8.31 film | 7.03 films |
| Horror | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tomohiro Nagatsuka (voice).
Career peak
2018Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2026Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Kozo Tsuguta (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.
13 of 13 films
as Kozo Tsuguta (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Ryuunosuke Akutagawa (voice)
Directed by Takuya Igarashi
as Asami (voice)
Directed by Yohei Kameyama
as Tomohiro Nagatsuka (voice)
Directed by Naoko Yamada
as Hathaway Noa (voice)
Directed by Shukou Murase
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
Kozo Tsuguta (voice)
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- (2026)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kozo Tsuguta (voice) gives Kensho Ono a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ryuunosuke Akutagawa (voice)
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple (2018)
Performance score8.6
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ryuunosuke Akutagawa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Asami (voice)
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026)
Performance score8.5
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asami (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tomohiro Nagatsuka (voice)
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Performance score8.3
A Silent Voice: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tomohiro Nagatsuka (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 Kozo Tsuguta (voice)
Start here. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- is the clearest statement of what Kensho Ono does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kensho 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.
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple (2018)
Keeps the animation register of A Silent Voice: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026)
Keeps the action register of Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple but asks for a colder reading of it.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (2026)
Keeps the science fiction register of Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tomotaka Shibayama
Director
2 films together
Notably A Whisker Away
Shukou Murase
Director
2 films together
Notably MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably A Silent Voice: The Movie
Takuya Igarashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
Hiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together
Notably BEM: BECOME HUMAN
Keisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together
Notably My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
Takayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark Witch
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Ai Yoshimura
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rose of Versailles
Yohei Kameyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tomotaka Shibayama
Director
2 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Whisker AwayShukou 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 CirceYohei Kameyama
Director
1 film together · 8.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the MovieNaoko Yamada
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Silent Voice: The MovieTakuya 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 AppleTakashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SPY x FAMILY CODE: WhiteAi Yoshimura
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rose of VersaillesHiroshi 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 HUMANKeisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The MovieTakayuki 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 WitchSix 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
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Tomohiro Nagatsuka (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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Kozo Tsuguta (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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Kozo Tsuguta (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Kozo Tsuguta (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Kozo Tsuguta (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. Kensho Ono 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
13 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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Kozo Tsuguta (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
as Ryuunosuke Akutagawa (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Kozo Tsuguta (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
as Ryuunosuke Akutagawa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
as Asami (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
as Asami (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
as Ahkil (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
as Ahkil (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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