Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17816
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Mahiro Takasugi 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.
Mahiro Takasugi appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mahiro. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, action, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tōya Satō, Aya Matsuki, Tsutomu Hanabusa and others, Mahiro Takasugi 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.
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018) as Haruki Shiga (voice) · SEE HEAR LOVE (2023) as Daisuke Uemura · Kakegurui: The Movie (2019) as Ryota Suzui
Career snapshot
Ranked #17816 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2018–2027
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Average Nutevio score
4.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Most frequent director
Tsutomu Hanabusa
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Tsutomu Hanabusa
Most common genre
Drama
10 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
5.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Witness, Kakegurui: The Movie, Smiles Leading To Happiness — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.7
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.8
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. The Witness, Kakegurui: The Movie, Smiles Leading To Happiness.
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 | 5.44 films | 4.76 films |
| Action | — | 4.63 films |
| Thriller | 7.22 films | 3.42 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.71 film |
| Crime | 7.01 film | 6.92 films |
| Romance | 7.91 film | 7.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Haruki Shiga (voice). 7.9 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
The current state of the argument, as Keita Mashimo.
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 Haruki Shiga (voice)
Directed by Shinichiro Ushijima
as Daisuke Uemura
Directed by Unknown
as Ryota Suzui
Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa
as Haruma Kunisaki
Directed by Junichi Mori
as Chifuyu Matsuno
Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa
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
Haruki Shiga (voice)
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Haruki Shiga (voice) gives Mahiro Takasugi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Daisuke Uemura
SEE HEAR LOVE (2023)
Performance score8.1
SEE HEAR LOVE asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Daisuke Uemura is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ryota Suzui
Kakegurui: The Movie (2019)
Performance score7.6
Kakegurui: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ryota Suzui is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Haruma Kunisaki
The Witness (2019)
Performance score7.4
The Witness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Haruma Kunisaki 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 Haruki Shiga (voice)
Start here. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is the clearest statement of what Mahiro Takasugi does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mahiro 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.
Kakegurui: The Movie (2019)
Keeps the drama register of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Witness (2019)
Keeps the thriller register of Kakegurui: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
SEE HEAR LOVE (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Witness — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1: Bloody Halloween - Destiny (2023)
Keeps the drama register of SEE HEAR LOVE but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
4 films together
Notably Kakegurui: The Movie
Aya Matsuki
Director
2 films together
Notably Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room - Capital Crisis
Shinichiro Ushijima
Director
1 film together
Notably I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Suicidal Teens
Junichi Mori
Director
1 film together
Notably The Witness
Tōya Satō
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaiji: Life Revenge Game
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
4 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kakegurui: The MovieAya Matsuki
Director
2 films together · 0.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room - Capital CrisisShinichiro Ushijima
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Want to Eat Your PancreasJunichi Mori
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WitnessYukihiko 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 TeensTōya Satō
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaiji: Life Revenge GameSix 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
SEE HEAR LOVE
as Daisuke Uemura
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Haruki Shiga (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
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Haruki Shiga (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Haruki Shiga (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. Mahiro Takasugi 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
Kakegurui: The Movie
as Ryota Suzui
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kakegurui: The Movie
as Ryota Suzui
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
SEE HEAR LOVE
as Daisuke Uemura
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kakegurui: The Movie
as Ryota Suzui
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
SEE HEAR LOVE
as Daisuke Uemura
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1: Bloody Halloween - Destiny
as Chifuyu Matsuno
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
as Haruki Shiga (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
12 Suicidal Teens
as Satoshi
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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