Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3274
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Misato Fukuen 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.
Misato Fukuen appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Misato. Pretty Cure All Stars F 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 action, mystery, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Katsuya Shigehara, Mitsuo Fukuda, Ryuta Tasaki and others, Misato Fukuen 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.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023) as Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021) as Chibiusa / Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon (voice) · Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak (2024) as Hopper1 (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3274 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2011–2025
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Most frequent director
Kunihiko Yuyama
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kunihiko Yuyama
Most common genre
Action
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 4m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.5
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
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM, Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 18 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, The Island of Giant Insects, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2.
Most productive era
2020s
18 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 | 6.62 films | 6.37 films |
| Action | 6.83 films | 7.215 films |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 7.02 films |
| Crime | — | 7.21 film |
| Romance | — | 7.72 films |
| Horror | 4.21 film | 4.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mijumaru / Leefu (voice).
Career peak
2021Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2025Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
The current state of the argument, as Maki Funakubo (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.
24 of 24 films
as Chibiusa / Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Chibiusa / Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
Directed by Tomoya Takahashi
as Chibiusa / Super Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Hopper1 (voice)
Directed by Ryuta Tasaki
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Chibiusa / Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Chibiusa / Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon (voice) gives Misato Fukuen a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Chibiusa / Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Performance score8.2
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chibiusa / Sailor Chibi Moon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chibiusa / Super Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Performance score8.2
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chibiusa / Super Sailor Chibi Moon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score8.0
Pretty Cure All Stars F asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy (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 Chibiusa / Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
Start here. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 is the clearest statement of what Misato Fukuen does — accessible, 80 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Misato 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.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Same director as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak (2024)
Keeps the action register of Pretty Cure All Stars F but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
3 films together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
2 films together
Notably Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
2 films together
Notably Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
Takeo Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island of Giant Insects
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island of Giant Insects
Shin Oonuma
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless Girl
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. Zenkaiger
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Katsuya Shigehara
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and ZekromChiaki Kon
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!Ryuta Tasaki
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future DaybreakTsutomu Mizushima
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FKenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingKatsuya Shigehara
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: One-Eyed FlashbackMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMShin Oonuma
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless GirlKatsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. ZenkaigerNaoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Island of Giant InsectsTakeo Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 4.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Island of Giant InsectsSix 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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Chibiusa / Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon (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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Chibiusa / Sailor Chibi Moon (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
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Himiko Toga (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Chibiusa / Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon (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. Misato Fukuen 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
18 catalogue titles in action, 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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Chibiusa / Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Chibiusa / Sailor Chibi Moon (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Island of Giant Insects
as Ayumi Matsuoka (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
as Hopper1 (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy (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 Fraw Bow (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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