Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#815
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kenta Miyake 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.
Kenta Miyake appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kenta. ChaO is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomomi Kamiya, Toshiki Hirano, Tensai Okamura and others, Kenta Miyake 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.
ChaO (2025) as King Neptunus (voice) · Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025) as Kaiju No. 10 (voice) · The First Slam Dunk (2022) as Takenori Akagi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #815 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2009–2025
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
ChaO
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
ChaO
Most frequent director
Kenji Nagasaki
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kenji Nagasaki
Most common genre
Animation
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.7
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
2000s
7.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Redline — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Redline.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.41 film | 6.83 films |
| Action | 7.51 film | 6.96 films | 7.45 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.01 film | 7.72 films |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | 6.41 film |
| Romance | — | — | 8.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Redline
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Little Deyzuna (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2025ChaO
8.3 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 King Neptunus (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.
19 of 19 films
as Takenori Akagi (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as All Might (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Kaiju No. 10 (voice)
Directed by Tomomi Kamiya
as Jack Hammer (voice)
Directed by Toshiki Hirano
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
King Neptunus (voice)
ChaO (2025)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. King Neptunus (voice) gives Kenta Miyake a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Takenori Akagi (voice)
The First Slam Dunk (2022)
Performance score8.1
The First Slam Dunk asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Takenori Akagi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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All Might (voice)
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)
Performance score7.9
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. All Might (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kaiju No. 10 (voice)
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025)
Performance score7.8
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kaiju No. 10 (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 King Neptunus (voice)
Start here. ChaO is the clearest statement of what Kenta Miyake does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kenta 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.
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)
Keeps the fantasy register of ChaO but asks for a colder reading of it.
The First Slam Dunk (2022)
Keeps the animation register of My Hero Academia: Two Heroes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura (2024)
Keeps the animation register of The First Slam Dunk but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025)
Keeps the action register of Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
Sunao Katabuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably In This Corner of the World
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja
Hatsuki Tsuji
Director
1 film together
Notably Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
Motonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
Kaori Makita
Director
1 film together
Notably Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather
Shunsuke Tada
Director
1 film together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Toshiki Hirano
Director
1 film together
Notably Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura
Tomomi Kamiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingTomomi Kamiya
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaiju No. 8: Mission ReconToshiki Hirano
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Baki Hanma VS Kengan AshuraMinoru Ashina
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another WorldSunao Katabuchi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In This Corner of the WorldTensai Okamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: You're NextHatsuki Tsuji
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lupin the Third: Prison of the PastMotonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - EvolutionKaori Makita
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds GatherHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Godzilla: City on the Edge of BattleSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Bride of HalloweenKunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of JusticeShunsuke Tada
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman NinjaSix 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
The First Slam Dunk
as Takenori Akagi (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
ChaO
as King Neptunus (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
ChaO
as King Neptunus (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 Nguyen van Huu
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
ChaO
as King Neptunus (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. Kenta Miyake 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
19 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
ChaO
as King Neptunus (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon
as Kaiju No. 10 (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
ChaO
as King Neptunus (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween
as Tsutomu Muranaka (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as All Might (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as Dark Might / All Might (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The First Slam Dunk
as Takenori Akagi (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
as Sakaki (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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