Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2181
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Satomi Sato 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.
Satomi Sato appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Satomi. Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Kitamura, Eisaku Kawanami, Yoshihide Ibata and others, Satomi Sato 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.
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull (2024) as Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice) · Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019) as Fumika Nanjo (voice) · Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time (2026) as Yukiko Kanzaki (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2181 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
Most frequent director
Eisaku Kawanami
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Eisaku Kawanami
Most common genre
Animation
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
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
6.4
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time, Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull, Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, K: Seven Stories Movie 6 - Circle Vision - Nameless Song, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.71 film | 6.63 films |
| Action | 6.32 films | 7.52 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.85 films |
| Romance | 7.71 film | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Wendy Marvell (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
7.8 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
2026Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
The current state of the argument, as Yukiko Kanzaki (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 Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Fumika Nanjo (voice)
Directed by Soichi Masui
as Yukiko Kanzaki (voice)
Directed by Masaki Kitamura
as Saki Hanajima (voice)
Directed by Yoshihide Ibata
as Wendy Marvell (voice)
Directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa
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
Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice)
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull (2024)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice) gives Satomi Sato a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Fumika Nanjo (voice)
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019)
Performance score7.5
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fumika Nanjo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yukiko Kanzaki (voice)
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time (2026)
Performance score7.1
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yukiko Kanzaki (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Saki Hanajima (voice)
Fruits Basket -prelude- (2022)
Performance score6.9
Fruits Basket -prelude- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Saki Hanajima (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 Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice)
Start here. Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull is the clearest statement of what Satomi Sato does — accessible, 82 minutes, and rated 7.8 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.
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017)
Keeps the action register of Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fruits Basket -prelude- (2022)
Keeps the romance register of Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time (2026)
Keeps the animation register of Fruits Basket -prelude- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Soichi Masui
Director
1 film together
Notably Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2
Yoshihide Ibata
Director
1 film together
Notably Fruits Basket -prelude-
Masaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeSoichi Masui
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming GirlMasaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our TimeYoshihide Ibata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fruits Basket -prelude-Tatsuma 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 CryHiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 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
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
as Fumika Nanjo (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
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
as Fumika Nanjo (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
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
as Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume
as Chigusa Hanamura (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
as Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (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 Sato 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
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
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
as Fumika Nanjo (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
as Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fruits Basket -prelude-
as Saki Hanajima (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
as Fumika Nanjo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
as Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull
as Saeko Sonozaki / Taboo Dopant (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Nagisa Hazuki (Elementary School Student) (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
as Yukiko Kanzaki (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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