Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1124
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Megumi Han 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.
Megumi Han appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Megumi. 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, animation, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chen Dali, Yoshimi Itazu, Koichi Sakamoto and others, Megumi Han 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 Sora (voice) · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021) as Ultraman Justice / Sora · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021) as Ultraman Justice / Sora
Career snapshot
Ranked #1124 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Average Nutevio score
7.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Most frequent director
Koichi Sakamoto
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Koichi Sakamoto
Most common genre
Animation
14 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
7.5
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
7.4
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
8.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie, The Concierge, Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
8.0
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
8.0
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. ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0, Seven Days War, Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 7.43 films | 7.56 films |
| Action | 7.23 films | 8.06 films |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 8.31 film | 7.25 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016In This Corner of the World
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sumi Urano (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece
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
2026The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie
The current state of the argument, as Moeko Sekine (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.
19 of 19 films
as Sora (voice)
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Ultraman Justice / Sora
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Ultraman Justice / Sora
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Handroid Meg
Directed by Unknown
as Shion Saionji (voice)
Directed by Kei Oikawa
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
Sora (voice)
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission (2022)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sora (voice) gives Megumi Han a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ultraman Justice / Sora
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 Justice / Sora is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ultraman Justice / Sora
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ultraman Justice / Sora is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Handroid Meg
Godzilla's Leading Ladies (2020)
Performance score9.5
Godzilla's Leading Ladies asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Handroid Meg 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 Sora (voice)
Start here. Ultraman Regulos: First Mission is the clearest statement of what Megumi Han 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 Megumi 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.
ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0 (2019)
Keeps the action register of Ultraman Regulos: First Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Godzilla's Leading Ladies (2020)
A deliberate change of key after ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Godzilla's Leading Ladies — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Same director as Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
4 films together
Notably Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably A Silent Voice: The Movie
Sunao Katabuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably In This Corner of the World
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Seven Days War
Kei Oikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0
Toshimasa Kuroyanagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Love Me, Love Me Not
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Shinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War
Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together
Notably Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Yoshihide Ibata
Director
1 film together
Notably Fruits Basket -prelude-
Yoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Concierge
Chen Dali
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
4 films together · 9.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultraman Regulos: First MissionNaoko 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 MovieKei Oikawa
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZENONZARD THE ANIMATION Episode 0Chen Dali
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dangers in My Heart: The MovieShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!Sunao Katabuchi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In This Corner of the WorldKyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words Bubble Up Like Soda PopYoshihide Ibata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fruits Basket -prelude-Toshimasa Kuroyanagi
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love Me, Love Me NotYoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConciergeShinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable WarHisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-EvolutionYuta Murano
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seven Days WarSix 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 Justice / Sora
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 Miki Kawai (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 Justice / Sora
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 Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Justice / Sora
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Sora (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. Megumi Han 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
14 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 Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Justice / Sora
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Justice / Sora
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie
as Moeko Sekine (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Concierge
as Mori (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Sora (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Sora (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love Me, Love Me Not
as Akari Yamamoto (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
as Sayla Mass / Letz Cofan (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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