Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19045
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Rick Yune represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Rick is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rick Yune appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rick. Tetris 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, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Prithviraj Sukumaran, Jon S. Baird, Robert Rodriguez and others, Rick Yune 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.
Tetris (2023) as Bank Manager · Alita: Battle Angel (2019) as Master Clive Lee · The Fast and the Furious (2001) as Johnny Tran
Career snapshot
Ranked #19045 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1999–2025
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Tetris
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Tetris
Most frequent director
Prithviraj Sukumaran
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Prithviraj Sukumaran
Most common genre
Action
6 titles
Average runtime
2h 5m
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
6.5
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. L2: Empuraan, Tetris — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 2 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
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Snow Falling on Cedars.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.11 film | — | — | 7.81 film |
| Action | — | 6.52 films | 6.43 films | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.52 films | 6.41 film | 7.02 films |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 6.11 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kazuo Miyamoto.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Tetris
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
2025L2: Empuraan
The current state of the argument, as Shenlong Shen.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Bank Manager
Directed by Jon S. Baird
as Master Clive Lee
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
as Johnny Tran
Directed by Rob Cohen
as Shenlong Shen
Directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran
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
Bank Manager
Tetris (2023)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bank Manager gives Rick Yune a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Master Clive Lee
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Performance score7.2
Alita: Battle Angel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Master Clive Lee is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Johnny Tran
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Performance score7.1
The Fast and the Furious asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Johnny Tran is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kang
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Performance score6.6
Olympus Has Fallen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kang 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 Bank Manager
Start here. Tetris is the clearest statement of what Rick Yune does — accessible, 118 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rick 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.
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Keeps the thriller register of Tetris but asks for a colder reading of it.
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Keeps the action register of The Fast and the Furious but asks for a colder reading of it.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Keeps the action register of Olympus Has Fallen but asks for a colder reading of it.
L2: Empuraan (2025)
Keeps the action register of Alita: Battle Angel but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rob Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fast and the Furious
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably Die Another Day
RZA
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Iron Fists
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably Olympus Has Fallen
Robert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably Alita: Battle Angel
Jon S. Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably Tetris
Prithviraj Sukumaran
Director
1 film together
Notably L2: Empuraan
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon S. Baird
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TetrisRobert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alita: Battle AngelRob Cohen
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fast and the FuriousAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Olympus Has FallenPrithviraj Sukumaran
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
L2: EmpuraanLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Die Another DayRZA
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the Iron FistsSix 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
Tetris
as Bank Manager
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tetris
as Bank Manager
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Tetris
as Bank Manager
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
L2: Empuraan
as Shenlong Shen
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Tetris
as Bank Manager
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. Rick Yune 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
26 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
6 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
Tetris
as Bank Manager
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Fast and the Furious
as Johnny Tran
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Tetris
as Bank Manager
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
L2: Empuraan
as Shenlong Shen
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Alita: Battle Angel
as Master Clive Lee
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Alita: Battle Angel
as Master Clive Lee
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Tetris
as Bank Manager
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tetris
as Bank Manager
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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