Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13864
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Riho Yoshioka 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.
Riho Yoshioka appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Riho. At the Bench is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 drama, romance, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomorowo Taguchi, Ayuko Tsukahara, Michihito Fujii and others, Riho Yoshioka 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.
At the Bench (2024) · Her Blue Sky (2019) as Akane Aioi (voice) · G-Men (2023) as Hitomi Amemiya
Career snapshot
Ranked #13864 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
At the Bench
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
At the Bench
Most frequent director
Tomorowo Taguchi
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tomorowo Taguchi
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
2020s
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Double Happiness, Street Kingdom: Make your own sound., 1st Kiss — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.6
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. The Witness, Her Blue Sky, Aging Police / Resurrection Special.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 5.91 film | 6.810 films |
| Action | — | 6.51 film |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | 6.53 films |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 7.23 films |
| Crime | 6.52 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.72 films | 7.22 films |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019The Witness
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Natsume Hamanaka.
Career peak
2019Her Blue Sky
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2024At the Bench
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
The current state of the argument, as Sachi.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Akane Aioi (voice)
Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai
as Natsume Hamanaka
Directed by Junichi Mori
as Ritsu Tenma
Directed by Ayuko Tsukahara
as Hitomi Amemiya
Directed by Toichiro Ruto
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
Akane Aioi (voice)
Her Blue Sky (2019)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Akane Aioi (voice) gives Riho Yoshioka a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Natsume Hamanaka
The Witness (2019)
Performance score7.6
The Witness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Natsume Hamanaka is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ritsu Tenma
1st Kiss (2025)
Performance score7.5
1st Kiss asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ritsu Tenma is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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At the Bench
At the Bench (2024)
Performance score7.3
At the Bench asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role 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 Akane Aioi (voice)
Start here. Her Blue Sky is the clearest statement of what Riho Yoshioka does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Riho 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 Witness (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Her Blue Sky — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
G-Men (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Witness — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
At the Bench (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of G-Men but asks for a colder reading of it.
1st Kiss (2025)
Keeps the drama register of At the Bench but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Satoshi Miki
Director
1 film together
Notably Aging Police / Resurrection Special
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably Her Blue Sky
Junichi Mori
Director
1 film together
Notably The Witness
Setsuro Wakamatsu
Director
1 film together
Notably Fukushima 50
Toichiro Ruto
Director
1 film together
Notably G-Men
Takashi Miike
Director
1 film together
Notably Lumberjack the Monster
Michihito Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably Faceless
Ayuko Tsukahara
Director
1 film together
Notably 1st Kiss
Tomorowo Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Her Blue SkyToichiro Ruto
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
G-MenAyuko Tsukahara
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
1st KissJunichi Mori
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 WitnessMichihito Fujii
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FacelessSetsuro Wakamatsu
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fukushima 50Takashi Miike
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lumberjack the MonsterSatoshi Miki
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aging Police / Resurrection SpecialTomorowo Taguchi
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.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
Her Blue Sky
as Akane Aioi (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
Her Blue Sky
as Akane Aioi (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
At the Bench
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fukushima 50
as Haruka Izaki
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Her Blue Sky
as Akane Aioi (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. Riho Yoshioka 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in drama, 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
At the Bench
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Witness
as Natsume Hamanaka
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
1st Kiss
as Ritsu Tenma
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
xxxHOLiC
as Jorougumo
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
At the Bench
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fukushima 50
as Haruka Izaki
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
G-Men
as Hitomi Amemiya
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
as Sachi
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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