Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#724
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rie Kugimiya 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.
Rie Kugimiya appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rie. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoya Ando, Atsushi Nishigori, Kazuya Tsurumaki and others, Rie Kugimiya 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.
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger (2020) as Jim Carter (voice) · Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) as FUSHI (voice) · Gintama: The Very Final (2021) as Kagura (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #724 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
Most frequent director
Naoya Ando
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Naoya Ando
Most common genre
Animation
21 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future, Hello World, Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future, Hello World, Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 | 6.73 films | 3.54 films |
| Action | 6.16 films | 6.69 films |
| Comedy | 6.92 films | 6.82 films |
| Crime | 5.61 film | 9.01 film |
| Romance | 7.32 films | 6.31 film |
| Horror | — | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Teto (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2026GROTESQQQUE
The current state of the argument, as Poyomi (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.
24 of 24 films
as Jim Carter (voice)
Directed by Katsuya Watanabe
as Kagura (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
as Kagura (voice)
Directed by Naoya Ando
as FUSHI (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Haro (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
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
Jim Carter (voice)
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger (2020)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jim Carter (voice) gives Rie Kugimiya a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kagura (voice)
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Performance score8.4
Gintama: The Very Final asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kagura (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kagura (voice)
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Performance score8.2
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kagura (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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FUSHI (voice)
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Performance score8.0
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. FUSHI (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 Jim Carter (voice)
Start here. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger is the clearest statement of what Rie Kugimiya does — accessible, 55 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rie 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.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Keeps the action register of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025)
Keeps the action register of Gintama: The Very Final but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Keeps the action register of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Keeps the science fiction register of Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together
Notably No Game No Life: Zero
Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja
Hiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together
Notably Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger
Gen Urobuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West
Tomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably Hello World
Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! - Chapter 2
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
Shin Oonuma
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless Girl
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Keisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together
Notably My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning
Chris Huang
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter
Shinji Takagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-
Atsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together
Notably GROTESQQQUE
Naoya Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 9.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS PatrangerChizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama: The Very FinalNaoya Ando
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in FlamesKazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Game No Life: ZeroTomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hello WorldTomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Digimon Adventure 02: The BeginningTakahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Shinji Takagi
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza LeagueTatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fairy Tail: Dragon CryKeisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The MovieChris Huang
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final ChapterShin Oonuma
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless GirlJumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman NinjaHiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lupinranger vs Patranger vs KyurangerGen Urobuchi
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the WestAtsushi Nishigori
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GROTESQQQUETakaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! - Chapter 2Six 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
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
as FUSHI (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
No Game No Life: Zero
as Teto (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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Jim Carter (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Jim Carter (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Jim Carter (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. Rie Kugimiya 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
21 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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Jim Carter (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Jim Carter (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
as Piyo (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe
as Yasuko Nagata (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Jim Carter (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Jim Carter (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Happy (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
as Piyo (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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