Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1521
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nana Mizuki 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.
Nana Mizuki appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nana. 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, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shojiro Nakazawa, Shinobu Sasaki, Ayataka Tanemura and others, Nana Mizuki 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 Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023) as Princess Kakyuu (voice) · Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022) as Cheelai (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1521 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Most frequent director
Tomoya Takahashi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tomoya Takahashi
Most common genre
Animation
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 17m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.2
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
2010s
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Relative Worlds, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. The Relative Worlds, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 6.43 films | 7.01 film |
| Action | 6.82 films | 5.88 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.84 films |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 7.72 films |
| Horror | — | 7.01 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 VIctini (voice).
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
2026No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger
The current state of the argument, as Itasha (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.
18 of 18 films
as Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Princess Kakyuu (voice)
Directed by Tomoya Takahashi
as Cheelai (voice)
Directed by Tetsuro Kodama
as Chirai (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Nagamine
as Vera Mitrohina (voice)
Directed by Minoru Ashina
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
Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice) gives Nana Mizuki a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Princess Kakyuu (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Performance score7.8
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Princess Kakyuu (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cheelai (voice)
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)
Performance score7.5
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cheelai (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chirai (voice)
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)
Performance score7.5
Dragon Ball Super: Broly asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chirai (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 Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice)
Start here. Pretty Cure All Stars F is the clearest statement of what Nana Mizuki does — accessible, 73 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nana 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.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)
Keeps the action register of Pretty Cure All Stars F but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)
Keeps the action register of Dragon Ball Super: Broly but asks for a colder reading of it.
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
2 films together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
Tatsuya Nagamine
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of Despair
Hiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together
Notably BEM: BECOME HUMAN
Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Tetsuro Kodama
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Shinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
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 2Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and ZekromYuta 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 FTetsuro 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 HeroTatsuya Nagamine
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: BrolyMinoru Ashina
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another WorldAyataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingHiroshi Ikehata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BEM: BECOME HUMANShinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur DiaryJunji Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 3.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of DespairShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS BoonboomgerSix 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 Cure All Stars F
as Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (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 Princess Kakyuu (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 Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (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. Nana Mizuki 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
16 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
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (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 Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (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 Princess Kakyuu (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Drifting Home
as Satoko Tonai (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Vanessa Enoteca (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Princess Kakyuu (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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