Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7329
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Satomi Korogi represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Satomi is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Satomi Korogi appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Satomi. Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, adventure, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Watanabe, Masakazu Hashimoto, Shinobu Sasaki and others, Satomi Korogi 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.
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy (2021) as Himawari Nohara (voice) · Tokyo Godfathers (2003) as Kiyoko (voice) · Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke (2022) as Himawari Nohara (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7329 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Tokyo Godfathers
Most frequent director
Masakazu Hashimoto
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Masakazu Hashimoto
Most common genre
Animation
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 28m
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
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
6.4
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
7.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Tokyo Godfathers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.9
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. Pokémon: The First Movie.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | — | 7.61 film | — | — |
| Action | 6.91 film | — | 6.81 film | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.61 film | — | 5.35 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Togepy (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2003Tokyo Godfathers
7.6 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
2026Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Very Bizarre! My Yokai Vacation
The current state of the argument, as Himawari Nohara (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.
9 of 9 films
as Himawari Nohara (voice)
Directed by Daiji Suzuki
as Kiyoko (voice)
Directed by Satoshi Kon
as Himawari Nohara (voice)
Directed by Masakazu Hashimoto
as Himawari Nohara (voice)
Directed by Hitoshi One
as Togepy (voice)
Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama
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
Himawari Nohara (voice)
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy (2021)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Himawari Nohara (voice) gives Satomi Korogi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kiyoko (voice)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Performance score7.7
Tokyo Godfathers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kiyoko (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Himawari Nohara (voice)
Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke (2022)
Performance score7.3
Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Himawari Nohara (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Himawari Nohara (voice)
New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~ (2023)
Performance score7.1
New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~ asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Himawari Nohara (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 Himawari Nohara (voice)
Start here. Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy is the clearest statement of what Satomi Korogi does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Satomi 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.
Pokémon: The First Movie (1998)
Keeps the animation register of Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Keeps the animation register of Pokémon: The First Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Tokyo Godfathers but asks for a colder reading of it.
New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~ (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Masakazu Hashimoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon: The First Movie
Satoshi Kon
Director
1 film together
Notably Tokyo Godfathers
Motonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
Daiji Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy
Hitoshi One
Director
1 film together
Notably New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~
Shinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary
Masaki Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Very Bizarre! My Yokai Vacation
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Masakazu Hashimoto
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja MononokeDaiji Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu AcademySatoshi Kon
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tokyo GodfathersHitoshi One
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon: The First MovieMotonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - EvolutionShinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur DiaryMasaki Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Very Bizarre! My Yokai VacationSix 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
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy
as Himawari Nohara (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
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
as Togepi (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
Tokyo Godfathers
as Kiyoko (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy
as Himawari Nohara (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy
as Himawari Nohara (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. Satomi Korogi 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
28 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
9 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
Tokyo Godfathers
as Kiyoko (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~
as Himawari Nohara (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
as Togepi (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
as Togepi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~
as Himawari Nohara (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~
as Himawari Nohara (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Tokyo Godfathers
as Kiyoko (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
as Togepi (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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