Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1725
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kenyu Horiuchi 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.
Kenyu Horiuchi appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kenyu. LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 animation, action, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kiyotaka Suzuki, Shun Enokido, Hiroaki Ando and others, Kenyu Horiuchi 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.
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins (2025) as Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice) · Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020) as Serizawa Junichi (voice) · Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023) as Berserker (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1725 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
Most frequent director
Hiroyuki Seshita
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Hiroyuki Seshita
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 17m
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
6.2
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
8 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 | — | — | 7.51 film |
| Action | 7.51 film | 6.51 film | 7.73 films |
| Crime | — | — | 7.82 films |
| Romance | — | — | 4.01 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 Titan (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
8.0 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
2026echo
The current state of the argument.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Serizawa Junichi (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Roju Otomo (voice)
Directed by Kiyotaka Suzuki
as Berserker (voice)
Directed by Shun Enokido
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
Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice)
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins (2025)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice) gives Kenyu Horiuchi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Serizawa Junichi (voice)
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Performance score7.4
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Serizawa Junichi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Roju Otomo (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
Performance score7.3
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roju Otomo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Berserker (voice)
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Performance score7.3
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Berserker (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 Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Start here. LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins is the clearest statement of what Kenyu Horiuchi does — accessible, 55 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kenyu 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.
Redline (2009)
Same director as LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Keeps the action register of Redline but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Keeps the action register of Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
Keeps the fantasy register of Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together
Notably Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably The World's Greatest First Love: Proposal
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Shinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbirds 55/GOGO
Hiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Kiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Godzilla: City on the Edge of BattleNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorShun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-Kiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of RageHiroaki 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 SageTomoya 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: ProposalShinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbirds 55/GOGOSix 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 Serizawa Junichi (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
The World's Greatest First Love: Proposal
as Takafumi Yokozawa (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
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Serizawa Junichi (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Fake Arsène Lupin III (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. Kenyu Horiuchi 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
10 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
as Roju Otomo (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Fake Arsène Lupin III (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 Takafumi Yokozawa (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
as Roju Otomo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
as Fake Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
as Unberto Mori (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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