Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rian appears in 28 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rian. Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026 is the clearest case: a film rated 6.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, drama, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with , Rian 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.
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026 (2026) as Rian · Stardom Nighter in Korakuen 2026 Feb. (2026) as Rian · Stardom in Sendai 2026 Mar. (2026) as Rian
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Rian.
Films in Nutevio
28
2024–2026
Career length
2 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.5
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
Average Nutevio score
3.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
Most frequent director
—
Longest collaboration
—
Most common genre
Action
28 titles
Average runtime
2h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
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
6.1
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
3.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Stardom 15th Anniversary Supreme Fight 2026 in Osaka, Stardom in Otsu 2026 Feb. ~Thank you Ukaruchan Arena, I'm Saori Anou from Stardom~, Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 1 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
3.4
Across 28 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
3.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Stardom 15th Anniversary Supreme Fight 2026 in Osaka, Stardom in Otsu 2026 Feb. ~Thank you Ukaruchan Arena, I'm Saori Anou from Stardom~, Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 1.
Most productive era
2020s
28 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 3.428 films |
| Action | 3.428 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2024Stardom Aomori 2 Days in Hachinohe
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Rian. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2026Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
6.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2026 ~Finals~
The current state of the argument, as Rian.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Korakuen ~ Day 4
2026 · Action
2h 55m
Stardom in Otsu 2026 Feb. ~Thank you Ukaruchan Arena, I'm Saori Anou from Stardom~
2026 · Action
2h 14m
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Korakuen ~ Day 1
2026 · Action
3h 6m
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
28 of 28 films
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
Rian
Stardom 15th Anniversary Supreme Fight 2026 in Osaka (2026)
Performance score6.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rian gives Rian a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rian
Stardom in Otsu 2026 Feb. ~Thank you Ukaruchan Arena, I'm Saori Anou from Stardom~ (2026)
Performance score6.5
Stardom in Otsu 2026 Feb. ~Thank you Ukaruchan Arena, I'm Saori Anou from Stardom~ asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rian is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rian
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 1 (2026)
Performance score6.5
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rian is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rian
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 2 (2026)
Performance score6.5
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rian 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 Rian
Start here. Stardom 15th Anniversary Supreme Fight 2026 in Osaka is the clearest statement of what Rian does — accessible, 291 minutes, and rated 6.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rian 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.
Stardom in Otsu 2026 Feb. ~Thank you Ukaruchan Arena, I'm Saori Anou from Stardom~ (2026)
Same director as Stardom 15th Anniversary Supreme Fight 2026 in Osaka, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 1 (2026)
Same director as Stardom in Otsu 2026 Feb. ~Thank you Ukaruchan Arena, I'm Saori Anou from Stardom~, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 2 (2026)
Same director as Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 1, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Stardom in Fuji 2026 Feb. (2026)
Same director as Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Not enough analysed work in the catalogue yet. This section fills in automatically as titles are imported.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
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
Stardom in Osaka 2026 Feb.
as Rian
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
as Rian
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
as Rian
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2026 ~Finals~
as Rian
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Stardom 15th Anniversary Supreme Fight 2026 in Osaka
as Rian
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. Rian 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
28 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
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
as Rian
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
as Rian
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
as Rian
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2026 ~Finals~
as Rian
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stardom All Star Grand Queendom 2026
as Rian
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Stardom 15th Anniversary Supreme Fight 2026 in Osaka
as Rian
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stardom 15th Anniversary Supreme Fight 2026 in Osaka
as Rian
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Stardom 15th Anniversary Series ~ New Year Stars 2026 in Osaka ~ Day 2
as Rian
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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