Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3934
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Miyu Irino represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Miyu is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Miyu Irino appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Miyu. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent 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 drama, animation, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomoaki Koshida, Yuzuru Tachikawa, Ai Yoshimura and others, Miyu Irino 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.
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent (2026) as Tenshi (voice) · Spirited Away (2001) as Haku (voice) · Spirited Away (2001) as Haku (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3934 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Most frequent director
Hayao Miyazaki
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Hayao Miyazaki
Most common genre
Animation
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
2000s
9.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Spirited Away, Spirited Away — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
9.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
8.6
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. Spirited Away, Spirited Away.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.83 films | 6.93 films |
| Action | — | 7.11 film | 4.23 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.41 film | 6.32 films |
| Romance | — | 8.31 film | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · First Nutevio masterpiece
2001Spirited Away
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Haku (voice). The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
10.0 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
2026Mob Psycho 100 Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
The current state of the argument, as Ritsu Kageyama.
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 Tenshi (voice)
Directed by Tomoaki Koshida
as Haku (voice)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
as Haku (voice)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
as Shouya Ishida (voice)
Directed by Naoko Yamada
as Akira Mikado / Asahi Sakayori (voice)
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 40 titles · 40 total credits · active 2001–2026
A New Dawn
2026 · Sentaro Obinata (voice)
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
2026 · Akira Mikado / Asahi Sakayori (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
2026 · Tenshi (voice)
Mob Psycho 100 Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
2026 · Ritsu Kageyama
Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky
2026 · TV · Kakeru Sorano (voice)
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia
2026 · TV · Shira (voice)
GHOST CONCERT : missing Songs
2026 · TV · Yōtetsu (voice)
The Rose of Versailles
2025 · Bernard Châtelet (voice)
Digimon Beatbreak
2025 · TV · Tomoro Tenma (voice)
CITY THE ANIMATION
2025 · TV · Tatewaku Makabe (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
2024 · Emperor (voice)
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
2024 · Koshi Sugawara (voice)
Grendizer U
2024 · TV · Duke Fleed (voice)
YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master
2024 · TV · Imperial Prince (voice)
DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION
2024 · TV · Keita Ohba (voice)
Tokyo Override
2024 · TV · Yasumoto (voice)
The Concierge
2023 · Japanese Wolf (voice)
The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today
2023 · TV · Tenchou (voice)
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
2022 · Dr. Hedo (voice)
YUREI DECO
2022 · TV · Finn (voice)
Urusei Yatsura
2022 · TV · Inaba (voice)
The Heike Story
2022 · TV · Taira no Koremori (voice)
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams
2021 · Natts (voice)
Child of Kamiari Month
2021 · Yato (voice)
The defining work
#1
Tenshi (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tenshi (voice) gives Miyu Irino a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Haku (voice)
Spirited Away (2001)
Performance score9.4
Spirited Away asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Haku (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Haku (voice)
Spirited Away (2001)
Performance score8.9
Spirited Away asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Haku (voice) 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 (voice)
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Performance score8.7
A Silent Voice: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shouya Ishida (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 Tenshi (voice)
Start here. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent is the clearest statement of what Miyu Irino does — accessible, 87 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Miyu 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.
Spirited Away (2001)
Keeps the animation register of Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spirited Away (2001)
Same director as Spirited Away, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Keeps the animation register of Spirited Away but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Keeps the animation register of A Silent Voice: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hayao Miyazaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Spirited Away
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably A Silent Voice: The Movie
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Mari Okada
Director
1 film together
Notably Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Osomatsu the Movie
Ryota Nakamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams
Tetsuro Kodama
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Yoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Concierge
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Ai Yoshimura
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rose of Versailles
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Mob Psycho 100 Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
Tomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Rumi Hiiragi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Mari Natsuki
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Takashi Naito
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Yasuko Sawaguchi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Tatsuya Gashuin
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Yumi Tamai
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Yo Oizumi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Koba Hayashi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Tsunehiko Kamijô
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Takehiko Ono
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Bunta Sugawara
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hayao Miyazaki
Director
2 films together · 9.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Spirited AwayTomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the SerpentNaoko 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 MovieSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster BattleTetsuro Kodama
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dragon Ball Super: Super HeroMari Okada
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maquia: When the Promised Flower BloomsTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The MovieMakoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Children Who Chase Lost VoicesAi Yoshimura
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rose of VersaillesKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!Yoshimi 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 ConciergeYouichi Fujita
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Osomatsu the MovieRyota Nakamura
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of DreamsYuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mob Psycho 100 Celebrates Its 10th AnniversarySix 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Tenshi (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
Spirited Away
as Haku (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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Tenshi (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
as Jean-nine (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Tenshi (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. Miyu Irino has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.4 | 8.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #72 of 681 | #9 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.4 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Animation, Fantasy, Family | Animation, Family, Comedy, Drama |
| Directors | Hayao Miyazaki | Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Screen presence, Quiet performance | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2001–2001 | 1999–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Haku (voice) — Spirited Away | Paul Edgecomb — The Green Mile |
| Most rewatchable film | Spirited Away | The Green Mile |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Fantasy Movies, Animation Movies
Our editors cannot separate them on the catalogue as it stands. Miyu Irino and Tom Hanks score within a rounding error of each other.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 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
18 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Tenshi (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Tenshi (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A New Dawn
as Sentaro Obinata (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Tenshi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Tenshi (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams
as Natts (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Spirited Away
as Haku (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spirited Away
as Haku (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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