Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4172
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ryunosuke Kamiki represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Ryunosuke is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ryunosuke Kamiki appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ryunosuke. Takeru No Plan Drive is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Makoto Shinkai, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Takashi Miike and others, Ryunosuke Kamiki 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.
Takeru No Plan Drive (2020) as Himself · Spirited Away (2001) as Boh (voice) · Spirited Away (2001) as Boh (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4172 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Takeru No Plan Drive
Average Nutevio score
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Takeru No Plan Drive
Most frequent director
Makoto Shinkai
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Makoto Shinkai
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
7.5
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
2000s
8.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Spirited Away — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
8.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
8.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Spirited Away.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 8.03 films | 7.47 films |
| Action | — | 7.72 films | 5.84 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 7.84 films |
| Romance | — | 8.32 films | 7.01 film |
| Horror | — | — | 4.63 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · First Nutevio masterpiece
2001Spirited Away
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Boh (voice). The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
10.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Koichi Shikishima.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Himself
Directed by Unknown
as Taki Tachibana (voice)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
as Boh (voice)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
as Markl (voice)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
as Boh (voice)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 26 titles · 26 total credits · active 2001–2026
Godzilla Minus Zero
2026 · Koichi Shikishima
Canned Mackerel Heads to Space
2026 · TV · Makoto Kijima
Pray Speak What Has Happened
2025 · TV · Shogo Horai
Saint Young Men The Movie ~Holy Men vs Demon Army~
2024 · Johane
At the Bench
2024 · Actor
The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea
2024 · TV · Teppei / Reo
TXQ FICTION
2024 · TV · Ryunosuke Kamiki
We're Broke, My Lord!
2023 · Koshiro Matsudaira
Godzilla Minus One
2023 · Koichi Shikishima
Ranman
2023 · TV · Makino Mantaro
Suzume
2022 · Tomoya Serizawa (voice)
Ghost Book
2022 · Mysterious bookstore owner
Dr. Coto's Clinic
2022 · Ryuichi Sugimoto
xxxHOLiC
2022 · Kimihiro Watanuki
If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student
2022 · TV · Koga Yuri [Takae's brother]
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
2021 · Shinji Ikari (voice)
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021 · Kato
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
2021 · Sojiro Seta
Last Letter
2020 · Young Kyoshiro
Takeru No Plan Drive
2020 · Himself
Weathering with You
2019 · Taki Tachibana (voice)
Your Name.
2016 · Taki Tachibana (voice)
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
2014 · Sojiro Seta
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
2014 · Sojiro Seta
The defining work
#1
Himself
Takeru No Plan Drive (2020)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Himself gives Ryunosuke Kamiki a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Taki Tachibana (voice)
Your Name. (2016)
Performance score9.1
Your Name. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Taki Tachibana (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Boh (voice)
Spirited Away (2001)
Performance score9.0
Spirited Away asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boh (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Markl (voice)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Performance score8.4
Howl's Moving Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Markl (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 Himself
Start here. Takeru No Plan Drive is the clearest statement of what Ryunosuke Kamiki does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ryunosuke 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.
Spirited Away (2001)
A deliberate change of key after Takeru No Plan Drive — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Spirited Away (2001)
Same director as Spirited Away, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Same director as Spirited Away, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Your Name. (2016)
Keeps the animation register of Howl's Moving Castle but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hayao Miyazaki
Director
3 films together
Notably Spirited Away
Makoto Shinkai
Director
3 films together
Notably Your Name.
Shunji Iwai
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Letter
Takashi Miike
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Rumi Hiiragi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Miyu Irino
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Mari Natsuki
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Takashi Naito
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Yasuko Sawaguchi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Tatsuya Gashuin
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Yumi Tamai
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Yo Oizumi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Koba Hayashi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Tsunehiko Kamijô
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Takehiko Ono
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Bunta Sugawara
Actor
1 film together
Notably Spirited Away
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hayao Miyazaki
Director
3 films together · 8.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Spirited AwayMakoto Shinkai
Director
3 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Your Name.Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a TimeShunji Iwai
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last LetterTakashi Miike
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great Yokai War: GuardiansSix 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
Spirited Away
as Boh (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
Spirited Away
as Boh (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
Takeru No Plan Drive
as Himself
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
as Sojiro Seta
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Takeru No Plan Drive
as Himself
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. Ryunosuke Kamiki has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.2 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #244 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.4 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Animation, Fantasy, Family | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Hayao Miyazaki | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2001–2001 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Boh (voice) — Spirited Away | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Spirited Away | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Fantasy Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 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
Takeru No Plan Drive
as Himself
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Takeru No Plan Drive
as Himself
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Suzume
as Tomoya Serizawa (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
xxxHOLiC
as Kimihiro Watanuki
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Takeru No Plan Drive
as Himself
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
as Sojiro Seta
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Spirited Away
as Boh (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spirited Away
as Boh (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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