Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#30117
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Kotone Furukawa 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.
Kotone Furukawa appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kotone. We Made a Beautiful Bouquet is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 drama, animation, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Takahiro Miki, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hayato Kawai and others, Kotone Furukawa 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.
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021) as Ayano Nakagawa · Secret: A Hidden Score (2024) as Yukino Naito · Even If This Love Disappears Tonight (2022) as Izumi Wataya
Career snapshot
Ranked #30117 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Most frequent director
Takahiro Miki
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Takahiro Miki
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
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
6.4
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. A New Dawn, Until We Meet Again, Cloud — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. Chiwawa-chan, 21st Century Girl, 12 Suicidal Teens.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.83 films | 6.87 films |
| Action | — | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.71 film |
| Crime | — | 6.71 film |
| Romance | 7.02 films | 7.44 films |
| Horror | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Chiwawa-chan
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sayaka.
Highest rated performance
2021We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2021Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Reiko Yanagisawa.
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 Yukino Naito
Directed by Hayato Kawai
as Kaoru Shikimori (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Meiko
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Meiko gives Kotone Furukawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Yukino Naito
Secret: A Hidden Score (2024)
Performance score7.7
Secret: A Hidden Score asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yukino Naito is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Izumi Wataya
Even If This Love Disappears Tonight (2022)
Performance score7.7
Even If This Love Disappears Tonight asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Izumi Wataya is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ayano Nakagawa
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021)
Performance score7.5
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ayano Nakagawa 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 Meiko
Start here. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is the clearest statement of what Kotone Furukawa does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kotone 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.
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021)
Keeps the romance register of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Even If This Love Disappears Tonight (2022)
Keeps the romance register of We Made a Beautiful Bouquet but asks for a colder reading of it.
Secret: A Hidden Score (2024)
Keeps the romance register of Even If This Love Disappears Tonight but asks for a colder reading of it.
A New Dawn (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Secret: A Hidden Score but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Takahiro Miki
Director
2 films together
Notably Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Suicidal Teens
Hana Matsumoto
Director
1 film together
Notably 21st Century Girl
Ken Ninomiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Chiwawa-chan
Nobuhiro Doi
Director
1 film together
Notably We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Isao Yukisada
Director
1 film together
Notably Revolver Lily
Hayato Kawai
Director
1 film together
Notably Secret: A Hidden Score
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Cloud
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Takahiro Miki
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Even If This Love Disappears TonightNobuhiro Doi
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Made a Beautiful BouquetHayato Kawai
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Secret: A Hidden ScoreHana Matsumoto
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
21st Century GirlIsao Yukisada
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Revolver LilyKen Ninomiya
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chiwawa-chanKiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CloudYukihiko Tsutsumi
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
12 Suicidal TeensSix 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
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Ayano Nakagawa
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Ayano Nakagawa
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Ayano Nakagawa
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
21st Century Girl
as (segment "Anytime, anywhere")
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
as Meiko
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. Kotone Furukawa 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Secret: A Hidden Score
as Yukino Naito
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Cloud
as Akiko Fujita
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A New Dawn
as Kaoru Shikimori (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
12 Suicidal Teens
as Mitsue
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Revolver Lily
as Kotoko
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Revolver Lily
as Kotoko
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A New Dawn
as Kaoru Shikimori (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
12 Suicidal Teens
as Mitsue
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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