Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3048
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Masaki Terasoma 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.
Masaki Terasoma appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Masaki. Ultraman Regulos: First Mission is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shinji Takagi, Tensai Okamura, Kotono Watanabe and others, Masaki Terasoma 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.
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission (2022) as Ultraman Chuck (voice) · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021) as Ultraman Chuck · Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger (2020) as Tyramigo (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3048 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2016–2025
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Average Nutevio score
7.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Most frequent director
Koichi Sakamoto
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Koichi Sakamoto
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.4
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
7.2
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
2020s
7.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League, My Hero Academia: You're Next, Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.7
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.7
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. Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian, Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 7.42 films | 8.03 films |
| Action | 6.11 film | 7.86 films |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 7.22 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 7.82 films |
| Romance | 8.71 film | 7.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Your Name.
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Toshiki Miyamizu (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece
2020Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance
2021Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
10.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
The current state of the argument, as James Gordon (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.
15 of 15 films
as Ultraman Chuck (voice)
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Ultraman Chuck
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Tyramigo (voice)
Directed by Katsuya Watanabe
as Toshiki Miyamizu (voice)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
as Kintaros (voice)
Directed by Shojiro Nakazawa
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
Ultraman Chuck (voice)
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission (2022)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ultraman Chuck (voice) gives Masaki Terasoma a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ultraman Chuck
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ultraman Chuck is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tyramigo (voice)
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger (2020)
Performance score8.6
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tyramigo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Toshiki Miyamizu (voice)
Your Name. (2016)
Performance score8.4
Your Name. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Toshiki Miyamizu (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 Ultraman Chuck (voice)
Start here. Ultraman Regulos: First Mission is the clearest statement of what Masaki Terasoma does — accessible, 25 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Masaki 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.
Your Name. (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Ultraman Regulos: First Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Your Name. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O! (2020)
Keeps the action register of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
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.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
2 films together
Notably Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Name.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
Kotaro Tamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Shinya Watada
Director
1 film together
Notably Hula Fulla Dance
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba
Kotono Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Shinji Takagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together · 10.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultraman Regulos: First MissionNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First GuardianKatsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 9.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS PatrangerMakoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your Name.Shojiro 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!Kotaro Tamura
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Josee, the Tiger and the FishTensai Okamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: You're NextShinji Takagi
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza LeagueYasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen YaibaKotono Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gold Kingdom and Water KingdomShinya Watada
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hula Fulla DanceKyouhei 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 ForeverRyuta 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraman Chuck
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Your Name.
as Toshiki Miyamizu (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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraman Chuck
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraman Chuck
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Ultraman Chuck (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. Masaki Terasoma 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraman Chuck
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Ultraman Chuck (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
as Oduni Ordu (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba
as Ginshir Toyama (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Ultraman Chuck (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as Bruno Gorrini (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hula Fulla Dance
as President / Director (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Your Name.
as Toshiki Miyamizu (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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