Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2955
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rina Hidaka 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.
Rina Hidaka appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rina. Pretty Cure All Stars F is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yasuhito Kikuchi, Shinsuke Yanagi, Naoyuki Tatsuwa and others, Rina Hidaka 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.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023) as Laura / Cure La Mer (voice) · Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022) as Kobachi Osaragi (voice) · Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022) as Filo (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2955 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Most frequent director
Yasuhito Kikuchi
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yasuhito Kikuchi
Most common genre
Animation
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 21m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.6
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
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea, Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the Rain, Oomuro-ke: Dear Sisters — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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. Laidbackers, Children Who Chase Lost Voices.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | — | 7.41 film |
| Action | — | 7.15 films |
| Comedy | 5.51 film | 7.17 films |
| Romance | — | 7.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mana (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.3 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
2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
The current state of the argument, as Milim Nava (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.
12 of 12 films
as Laura / Cure La Mer (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Kobachi Osaragi (voice)
Directed by Mamoru Hatakeyama
as Filo (voice)
Directed by Minoru Ashina
as Mana (voice)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
as Will (voice)
Directed by Shinsuke Yanagi
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
Laura / Cure La Mer (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Laura / Cure La Mer (voice) gives Rina Hidaka a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kobachi Osaragi (voice)
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Performance score7.8
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kobachi Osaragi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Filo (voice)
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022)
Performance score7.4
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Filo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mana (voice)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
Performance score7.4
Children Who Chase Lost Voices asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mana (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 Laura / Cure La Mer (voice)
Start here. Pretty Cure All Stars F is the clearest statement of what Rina Hidaka does — accessible, 73 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rina 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.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pretty Cure All Stars F but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Children Who Chase Lost Voices but asks for a colder reading of it.
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the Rain (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Laidbackers
Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet
Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
Ayako Kono
Director
1 film together
Notably Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
Mamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together
Notably Oomuro-ke: Dear Sisters
Shinsuke Yanagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the Rain
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FMamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another WorldShinsuke Yanagi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the RainAyako Kono
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless NightMakoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Children Who Chase Lost VoicesJun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Date A Bullet: Dead or BulletYasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oomuro-ke: Dear SistersHiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LaidbackersJunji Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!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
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Kobachi Osaragi (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
Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the Rain
as Will (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
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Laura / Cure La Mer (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
as Filo (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Laura / Cure La Mer (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. Rina Hidaka 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
12 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
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Laura / Cure La Mer (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Laura / Cure La Mer (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the Rain
as Will (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
as Mana (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Laura / Cure La Mer (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Laura / Cure La Mer (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Senpai Is an Otokonoko Movie: Sunshine After the Rain
as Will (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
as Mana (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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