Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14752
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Mayu Matsuoka 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.
Mayu Matsuoka appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mayu. A Silent Voice: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Toshiya Shinohara, Tomohisa Taguchi, Isao Yukisada and others, Mayu Matsuoka 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.
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016) as Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (voice) · Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020) as Menoa Bellucci (voice) · Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland– (2025) as The Queen of Hearts (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #14752 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2008–2025
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
A Silent Voice: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
A Silent Voice: The Movie
Most frequent director
Toshiya Shinohara
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Toshiya Shinohara
Most common genre
Animation
5 titles
Average runtime
2h 10m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
6.8
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Wonderland, Shoplifters, A Silent Voice: The Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Love Exposure.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.41 film | 8.02 films | 7.32 films |
| Action | — | — | 7.52 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.61 film | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | 7.41 film | — | 6.51 film |
| Crime | — | 7.61 film | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 7.41 film | 8.31 film | 7.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Love Exposure
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Yuri.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.3 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
2025Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
The current state of the argument, as The Queen of Hearts (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.
9 of 9 films
as The Queen of Hearts (voice)
Directed by Toshiya Shinohara
as Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
Directed by Naoko Yamada
as Aki Shibata
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
as Menoa Bellucci (voice)
Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
From the library
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The defining work
#1
The Queen of Hearts (voice)
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland– (2025)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Queen of Hearts (voice) gives Mayu Matsuoka a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Saki
Theatre: A Love Story (2020)
Performance score8.0
Theatre: A Love Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Saki is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Performance score8.0
A Silent Voice: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Aki Shibata
Shoplifters (2018)
Performance score7.9
Shoplifters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aki Shibata 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 The Queen of Hearts (voice)
Start here. Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland– is the clearest statement of what Mayu Matsuoka does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mayu 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.
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Keeps the animation register of Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland– but asks for a colder reading of it.
Shoplifters (2018)
Keeps the drama register of A Silent Voice: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Theatre: A Love Story (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Shoplifters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Theatre: A Love Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sion Sono
Director
1 film together
Notably Love Exposure
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably A Silent Voice: The Movie
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Director
1 film together
Notably Shoplifters
Isao Yukisada
Director
1 film together
Notably Theatre: A Love Story
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Toshiya Shinohara
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Silent Voice: The MovieTomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution KizunaToshiya Shinohara
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–Isao Yukisada
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Theatre: A Love StoryHirokazu Kore-eda
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShopliftersSion Sono
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love ExposureSix 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
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (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
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (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
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Love Exposure
as Yuri
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
as The Queen of Hearts (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. Mayu Matsuoka 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
5 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
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
as Menoa Bellucci (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Shoplifters
as Aki Shibata
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
as The Queen of Hearts (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hell Dogs
as Emiri Kisa
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
as Menoa Bellucci (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
as Menoa Bellucci (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
as The Queen of Hearts (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
as The Queen of Hearts (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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