Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1592
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Subaru Kimura 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.
Subaru Kimura appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Subaru. HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle 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, Tetsuo Yajima, Shota Goshozono and others, Subaru Kimura 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.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024) as Satori Tendo (voice) · The First Slam Dunk (2022) as Hanamichi Sakuragi (voice) · Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) as Aoi Todo (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1592 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Most frequent director
Kazuaki Imai
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kazuaki Imai
Most common genre
Animation
18 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
6.9
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
6.5
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time, Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil, JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 20 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger, Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island, PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie.
Most productive era
2020s
20 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 | — | 7.17 films |
| Action | 6.32 films | 6.86 films |
| Comedy | 7.01 film | 7.29 films |
| Crime | 5.61 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sem (voice).
Highest rated performance
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
The current state of the argument, as Gian (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.
23 of 23 films
as Kanba Takakura (voice)
Directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara
as Hanamichi Sakuragi (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Gian (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Satori Tendo (voice)
Directed by Susumu Mitsunaka
as Aoi Todo (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
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
Kanba Takakura (voice)
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic (2022)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kanba Takakura (voice) gives Subaru Kimura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hanamichi Sakuragi (voice)
The First Slam Dunk (2022)
Performance score7.8
The First Slam Dunk asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hanamichi Sakuragi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gian (voice)
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)
Performance score7.8
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gian (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Satori Tendo (voice)
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Performance score7.6
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Satori Tendo (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 Kanba Takakura (voice)
Start here. RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic is the clearest statement of what Subaru Kimura does — accessible, 124 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Subaru 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.
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)
Keeps the science fiction register of RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Keeps the fantasy register of Stand by Me Doraemon 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The First Slam Dunk (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of The First Slam Dunk but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Takayuki Shibasaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
Kunihiko Ikuhara
Director
2 films together
Notably RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
Kazuaki Imai
Director
2 films together
Notably Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie
Hiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together
Notably Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Shinya Watada
Director
1 film together
Notably Hula Fulla Dance
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond
Kotono Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
Takumi Doyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Sky Utopia
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Akira Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Showman
Toshiya Shinohara
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution
Tetsuo Yajima
Director
1 film together
Notably Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
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.
Kunihiko Ikuhara
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival TacticKazuaki Imai
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
Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure IslandTakayuki Shibasaki
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
Kamen Rider: Beyond GenerationsSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster BattleSunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Toshiya Shinohara
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet BondTetsuo Yajima
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea DevilMasaki 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 TimeTakumi Doyama
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Sky UtopiaNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PSYCHO-PASS: The MovieKotono Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gold Kingdom and Water KingdomShinya Watada
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hula Fulla DanceAkira Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black ShowmanShota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: ExecutionRyuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero ChroniclesHiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lupinranger vs Patranger vs KyurangerSix 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
The First Slam Dunk
as Hanamichi Sakuragi (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
Stand by Me Doraemon 2
as Gian (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
Stand by Me Doraemon 2
as Gian (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
as Satori Tendo (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Kanba Takakura (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. Subaru Kimura 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
18 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
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
as Tweedledum (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Kanba Takakura (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
as Gian (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Kanba Takakura (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Aoi Todo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kamen Rider Geats × Revice: Movie Battle Royale
as Vice / Kamen Rider Vice (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stand by Me Doraemon 2
as Gian (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The First Slam Dunk
as Hanamichi Sakuragi (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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