Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1525
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Koji Yusa 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.
Koji Yusa appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Koji. Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O! 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yasuhito Kikuchi, Shota Goshozono, Chika Nagaoka and others, Koji Yusa 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.
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O! (2020) as Urataros (voice) · ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards (2020) as Lilium (voice) · Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram (2024) as Soshi Okita (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1525 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
Most frequent director
Shunsuke Tada
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shunsuke Tada
Most common genre
Animation
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
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
6.1
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip, Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip, Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 6.11 film | 6.73 films |
| Action | 6.32 films | 6.85 films |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 7.32 films |
| Crime | 6.41 film | 6.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Urataros / Kamen Rider Den-O Rod Form (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
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
2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
The current state of the argument, as Djeese (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.
11 of 11 films
as Urataros (voice)
Directed by Shojiro Nakazawa
as Lilium (voice)
Directed by Shingo Natsume
as Soshi Okita (voice)
Directed by Chika Nagaoka
as Yun Sangho (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Djeese (voice)
Directed by Yasuhito Kikuchi
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
Urataros (voice)
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O! (2020)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Urataros (voice) gives Koji Yusa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lilium (voice)
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards (2020)
Performance score7.3
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lilium (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Soshi Okita (voice)
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram (2024)
Performance score6.8
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Soshi Okita (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yun Sangho (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island (2022)
Performance score6.8
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yun Sangho (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 Urataros (voice)
Start here. Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O! is the clearest statement of what Koji Yusa does — accessible, 23 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Koji 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.
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O! — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island (2022)
Keeps the drama register of ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram (2024)
Keeps the action register of Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island but asks for a colder reading of it.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea (2026)
Keeps the animation register of Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
Shingo Natsume
Director
1 film together
Notably ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shunsuke 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 1Shojiro Nakazawa
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 Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!Shingo Natsume
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - RegardsChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar PentagramYasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
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 Scarlet School TripKyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Heisei Generations ForeverShota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: ExecutionRyuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero ChroniclesSix 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
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
as Soshi Okita (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
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
as Lilium (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
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
as Urataros (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
as Yun Sangho (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
as Urataros (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. Koji Yusa 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
8 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
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
as Lilium (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
as Urataros (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
as Lilium (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
as Lilium (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
as Urataros (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
as Urataros (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
as Djeese (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 Yun Sangho (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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