Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#53488
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Marie Iitoyo 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.
Marie Iitoyo appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Marie. The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes 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, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kentaro Hirase, Koichi Sakamoto, Ayataka Tanemura and others, Marie Iitoyo 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.
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022) as Anzu Hanashiro (voice) · Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger (2024) as Yayoi Ulshade / Kyoryu Violet · Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023) as Millie Maxwell (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #53488 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Most frequent director
Kentaro Hirase
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kentaro Hirase
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Go Away, Ultramarine, Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze, The Flowers of Evil — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Go Away, Ultramarine, Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze, The Flowers of Evil.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 6.93 films | 4.63 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | 7.52 films |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | — |
| Crime | 6.41 film | — |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 7.71 film |
| Horror | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Manabe Yu.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
7.7 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
2026Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: Kyoka Izumi Will Not Be Silenced
The current state of the argument, as Kyoka Izumi.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Anzu Hanashiro (voice)
Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
as Yayoi Ulshade / Kyoryu Violet
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Millie Maxwell (voice)
Directed by Ayataka Tanemura
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
Anzu Hanashiro (voice)
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Anzu Hanashiro (voice) gives Marie Iitoyo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Manabe Yu
Go Away, Ultramarine (2019)
Performance score7.6
Go Away, Ultramarine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manabe Yu is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yayoi Ulshade / Kyoryu Violet
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger (2024)
Performance score7.3
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yayoi Ulshade / Kyoryu Violet is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Millie Maxwell (voice)
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
Performance score7.3
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Millie Maxwell (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 Anzu Hanashiro (voice)
Start here. The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes is the clearest statement of what Marie Iitoyo does — accessible, 83 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Marie 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.
Go Away, Ultramarine (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze (2019)
Same director as Go Away, Ultramarine, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger (2024)
Keeps the action register of Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kenji Kodama
Director
1 film together
Notably City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes
Noboru Iguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flowers of Evil
Otsuichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Stare
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger
Kentaro Hirase
Director
1 film together
Notably Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: Kyoka Izumi Will Not Be Silenced
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of GoodbyesKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. KyoryugerAyataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingNoboru Iguchi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Flowers of EvilKenji Kodama
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
City Hunter: Shinjuku Private EyesOtsuichi
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StareKentaro Hirase
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: Kyoka Izumi Will Not Be SilencedSix 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
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Millie Maxwell (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 Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
as Anzu Hanashiro (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
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
as Anzu Hanashiro (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger
as Yayoi Ulshade / Kyoryu Violet
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
as Anzu Hanashiro (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. Marie Iitoyo 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
6 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
Go Away, Ultramarine
as Manabe Yu
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Go Away, Ultramarine
as Manabe Yu
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
as Anzu Hanashiro (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Go Away, Ultramarine
as Manabe Yu
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger
as Yayoi Ulshade / Kyoryu Violet
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger
as Yayoi Ulshade / Kyoryu Violet
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
as Anzu Hanashiro (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Go Away, Ultramarine
as Manabe Yu
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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