Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#36054
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Shohei Uno 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.
Shohei Uno appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Shohei. We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous 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, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, comedy, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shinji Imaoka, Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Hikari and others, Shohei Uno 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.
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous (2020) as lumber dealer · Gift of Fire (2021) · Rental Family (2025) as Mr. Daitoh
Career snapshot
Ranked #36054 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
Most frequent director
Nobuhiro Doi
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Nobuhiro Doi
Most common genre
Drama
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.1
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
2010s
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. 37 Seconds — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. 37 Seconds.
Most productive era
2020s
21 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 | 7.31 film | 5.915 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.24 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.26 films |
| Crime | — | 6.94 films |
| Romance | — | 6.74 films |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
201937 Seconds
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Iketani.
Highest rated performance
2020We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2021Gift of Fire
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026MYSTERY ARENA
The current state of the argument, as Oana.
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.
22 of 22 films
Directed by Hiroshi Kurosaki
as Mr. Daitoh
Directed by Hikari
Directed by Nobuhiro Doi
as Fish Shop Manager
Directed by Shuichi Okita
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
Gift of Fire
Gift of Fire (2021)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Shohei Uno a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
lumber dealer
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous (2020)
Performance score8.0
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. lumber dealer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Mr. Daitoh
Rental Family (2025)
Performance score7.5
Rental Family asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Daitoh is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
A Moon in the Ordinary
A Moon in the Ordinary (2025)
Performance score7.5
A Moon in the Ordinary asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
Start here. Gift of Fire is the clearest statement of what Shohei Uno does — accessible, 80 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Shohei 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.
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Gift of Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Fish Tale (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rental Family (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of The Fish Tale but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Moon in the Ordinary (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Rental Family but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nobuhiro Doi
Director
3 films together
Notably A Moon in the Ordinary
Masaharu Take
Director
2 films together
Notably We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
Hideo Jojo
Director
2 films together
Notably Nighttime Warbles
Hikari
Director
2 films together
Notably Rental Family
Koji Shiraishi
Director
1 film together
Notably A Beast in Love
Hiroshi Kurosaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gift of Fire
Shinya Kawatsura
Director
1 film together
Notably The House of the Lost on the Cape
Natsuki Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably A Girl in My Room
Shuichi Okita
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fish Tale
Ayuko Tsukahara
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Mile
Nobuhiro Yamashita
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghost Cat Anzu
Michihito Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably Faceless
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Director
1 film together
Notably MYSTERY ARENA
Shinji Imaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Grim Reaper Barber
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nobuhiro Doi
Director
3 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Moon in the OrdinaryHikari
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Rental FamilyMasaharu Take
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
We Make Antiques! Kyoto RendezvousHideo Jojo
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Nighttime WarblesHiroshi Kurosaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gift of FireShuichi Okita
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fish TaleNobuhiro Yamashita
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghost Cat AnzuAyuko Tsukahara
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last MileMichihito Fujii
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FacelessShinya Kawatsura
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The House of the Lost on the CapeNatsuki Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Girl in My RoomKoji Shiraishi
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Beast in LoveShinji Imaoka
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grim Reaper BarberYukihiko Tsutsumi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MYSTERY ARENASix 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
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
as lumber dealer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Gift of Fire
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
as lumber dealer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gift of Fire
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. Shohei Uno 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
16 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
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
as lumber dealer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Voice of Sin
as Soichiro Ikushima
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Young & Fine
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Last Mile
as Sano Wataru
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
as lumber dealer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Fish Tale
as Fish Shop Manager
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The House of the Lost on the Cape
as Kappa of Mabechigawa (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Moon in the Ordinary
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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