Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6418
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Suzuko Mimori 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.
Suzuko Mimori appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Suzuko. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, animation, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoyuki Tatsuwa, Akira Amemiya, Yuta Tanaka and others, Suzuko Mimori 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.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021) as Mother of Ultra · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021) as Mother of Ultra · Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" (2019) as Hikari Kagura
Career snapshot
Ranked #6418 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2017–2024
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Average Nutevio score
7.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Most frequent director
Koichi Sakamoto
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Koichi Sakamoto
Most common genre
Animation
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
7.1
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
2020s
7.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Oomuro-ke: Dear Sisters, Gridman Universe, Pretty Cure All Stars F — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.6
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.6
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. Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert", Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Soul Speed, Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | — | 8.32 films |
| Action | 6.63 films | 7.88 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.44 films |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Princess Hisui E. Fiore (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Himawari Furutani (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.
16 of 16 films
as Mother of Ultra
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Mother of Ultra
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Hikari Kagura (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Sora Takenouchi (voice)
Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
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
Hikari Kagura
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" (2019)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hikari Kagura gives Suzuko Mimori a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mother of Ultra
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mother of Ultra is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mother of Ultra
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mother of Ultra is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hikari Kagura (voice)
Revue Starlight: The Movie (2021)
Performance score8.6
Revue Starlight: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hikari Kagura (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 Hikari Kagura
Start here. Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" is the clearest statement of what Suzuko Mimori does — accessible, 151 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Suzuko 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.
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Same director as Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Revue Starlight: The Movie (2021)
Keeps the action register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together
Notably Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Kosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together
Notably Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer
Tomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Ryota Nakamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams
Kohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Baku Kinoshita
Director
1 film together
Notably ODDTAXI in the Woods
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Akira Amemiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Gridman Universe
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together
Notably Oomuro-ke: Dear Sisters
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together · 9.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined CrossroadYuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FTomohisa Taguchi
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution KizunaAkira Amemiya
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gridman UniverseTatsuma 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 CryKosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - StargazerBaku Kinoshita
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ODDTAXI in the WoodsNaoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oomuro-ke: Dear SistersKohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!Ryota Nakamura
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Healin' Good♥Precure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of DreamsSix 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Mother of Ultra
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Revue Starlight: The Movie
as Hikari Kagura (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
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Hikari Kagura
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Mother of Ultra
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Hikari Kagura
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. Suzuko Mimori 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
13 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Mother of Ultra
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Mother of Ultra
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Revue Starlight: The Movie
as Hikari Kagura (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
ODDTAXI in the Woods
as Rui Nikaidо (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Mother of Ultra
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Asumi Fuurin / Cure Earth (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Asumi Fuurin / Cure Earth (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Revue Starlight: The Movie
as Hikari Kagura (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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