Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11323
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Noriaki Kanze 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.
Noriaki Kanze appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Noriaki. Weathering with You is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 war, science fiction, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shukou Murase, Keiichiro Saito, Tensai Okamura and others, Noriaki Kanze 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.
Weathering with You (2019) as (voice) · My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) as Flirting Man (voice) · MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (2026) as Josef Cedi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11323 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Weathering with You
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Most frequent director
Shukou Murase
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Shukou Murase
Most common genre
Animation
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
2010s
7.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Weathering with You, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.6
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. Weathering with You, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | 7.81 film | 7.12 films |
| Action | 7.32 films | 7.02 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.91 film |
| Romance | 7.81 film | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as (voice). 7.8 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
2026MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
The current state of the argument, as Josef Cedi (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.
7 of 7 films
as (voice)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
as Flirting Man (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Josef Cedi (voice)
Directed by Shukou Murase
as (voice)
Directed by Tensai Okamura
as Comment (voice)
Directed by Keiichiro Saito
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
(voice)
Weathering with You (2019)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. (voice) gives Noriaki Kanze a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Flirting Man (voice)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Performance score7.6
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Flirting Man (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Josef Cedi (voice)
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (2026)
Performance score7.2
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Josef Cedi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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(voice)
My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024)
Performance score7.1
My Hero Academia: You're Next asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (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 (voice)
Start here. Weathering with You is the clearest statement of what Noriaki Kanze does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Noriaki 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.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of Weathering with You but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024)
Keeps the action register of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising but asks for a colder reading of it.
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1 (2024)
Keeps the animation register of My Hero Academia: You're Next but asks for a colder reading of it.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (2026)
Keeps the animation register of BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Weathering with You
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Keiichiro Saito
Director
1 film together
Notably BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
Shukou Murase
Director
1 film together
Notably MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weathering with YouKenji 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 RisingShukou Murase
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph CirceTensai Okamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: You're NextKeiichiro Saito
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!Six 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
Weathering with You
as (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
Weathering with You
as (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
Weathering with You
as (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 Flirting Man (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Weathering with You
as (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. Noriaki Kanze 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
7 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
Weathering with You
as (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Flirting Man (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Weathering with You
as (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Flirting Man (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
as Comment (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1
as Comment (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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