Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6852
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Shido Nakamura 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.
Shido Nakamura appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Shido. Mio's Cookbook is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 music, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yusaku Matsumoto, Tomorowo Taguchi, Hirokazu Kore-eda and others, Shido Nakamura 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.
Mio's Cookbook (2020) as Mataji · Monster (2023) as Kiyotaka Hoshikawa · Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) as Lieutenant Ito
Career snapshot
Ranked #6852 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Mio's Cookbook
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Mio's Cookbook
Most frequent director
Yusaku Matsumoto
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yusaku Matsumoto
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
2h 4m
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
2000s
7.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God, Letters from Iwo Jima, Fearless — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.6
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. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God, Letters from Iwo Jima, Fearless.
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 | 2000s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.53 films | 6.18 films |
| Action | 7.52 films | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | 6.96 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.91 film |
| Crime | 7.41 film | 7.03 films |
| Horror | — | 6.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lieutenant Ito.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Mio's Cookbook
8.1 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
2026Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
The current state of the argument, as Hiromi.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Ryuk (voice)
Directed by Tetsuro Araki
as Lieutenant Ito
Directed by Clint Eastwood
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
Mataji
Mio's Cookbook (2020)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mataji gives Shido Nakamura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ryuk (voice)
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007)
Performance score7.7
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ryuk (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lieutenant Ito
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Performance score7.6
Letters from Iwo Jima asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lieutenant Ito is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anno Tanaka
Fearless (2006)
Performance score7.6
Fearless asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anno Tanaka 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 Mataji
Start here. Mio's Cookbook is the clearest statement of what Shido Nakamura does — accessible, 131 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Shido 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.
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Keeps the drama register of Mio's Cookbook but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fearless (2006)
Keeps the action register of Letters from Iwo Jima but asks for a colder reading of it.
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007)
Keeps the drama register of Fearless but asks for a colder reading of it.
Character (2021)
Keeps the crime register of Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ronny Yu
Director
1 film together
Notably Fearless
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Letters from Iwo Jima
Tetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
Kazuya Shiraishi
Director
1 film together
Notably Last of the Wolves
Takeshi Kitano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kubi
Takashi Miike
Director
1 film together
Notably Lumberjack the Monster
Michihito Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably The Village
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster
Tomorowo Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
Yusaku Matsumoto
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is I
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MonsterClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Letters from Iwo JimaRonny Yu
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FearlessTetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a GodYusaku Matsumoto
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Is IKazuya Shiraishi
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last of the WolvesTakeshi Kitano
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KubiMichihito Fujii
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The VillageTakashi 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 MonsterTomorowo 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
Mio's Cookbook
as Mataji
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
This Is I
as Tsuruhisa
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mio's Cookbook
as Mataji
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Last of the Wolves
as Takafumi Kosaska
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mio's Cookbook
as Mataji
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. Shido Nakamura 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
20 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
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
Monster
as Kiyotaka Hoshikawa
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Monster
as Kiyotaka Hoshikawa
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
This Is I
as Tsuruhisa
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Character
as Makabe Kota
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fearless
as Anno Tanaka
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fearless
as Anno Tanaka
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kubi
as Naniwa Mosuke
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
as Hiromi
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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