Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2629
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Megumi Ogata represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Megumi is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Megumi Ogata appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Megumi. EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, comedy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Kitamura, Shota Goshozono, Tomohisa Taguchi and others, Megumi Ogata 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.
EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening (2026) as Shinji Ikari (voice) · Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) as Shinji Ikari (voice) · Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) as Yuta Okkotsu (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2629 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening
Most frequent director
Kazuya Tsurumaki
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kazuya Tsurumaki
Most common genre
Animation
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 12m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.9
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
1990s
8.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
8.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
8.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 8.01 film | — | 7.81 film |
| Action | 8.01 film | 6.81 film | 7.35 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 7.33 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Shinji Ikari (voice). Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2026EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
The current state of the argument, as Itona Horibe (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.
11 of 11 films
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
as Yuta Okkotsu (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
as Dream Stone (voice)
Directed by Kyouhei Yamaguchi
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
Shinji Ikari (voice)
EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening (2026)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shinji Ikari (voice) gives Megumi Ogata a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shinji Ikari (voice)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Performance score8.5
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shinji Ikari (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yuta Okkotsu (voice)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Performance score8.3
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yuta Okkotsu (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shinji Ikari (voice)
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
Performance score8.3
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shinji Ikari (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 Shinji Ikari (voice)
Start here. EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening is the clearest statement of what Megumi Ogata does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 8.3 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.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Keeps the science fiction register of EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Keeps the action register of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion but asks for a colder reading of it.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
Keeps the action register of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream (2021)
Keeps the action register of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution
Masaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of EvangelionSunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop DreamMasaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our TimeTomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Digimon Adventure 02: The BeginningTakahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: ExecutionSix 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
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Yuta Okkotsu (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
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
as Shinji Ikari (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
EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening
as Shinji Ikari (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 Ogata 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
29 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
8 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
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Yuta Okkotsu (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Yuta Okkotsu (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
as Shinji Ikari (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream
as Dream Stone (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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