Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4109
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Takako Honda 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.
Takako Honda appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Takako. Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 mystery, crime, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoyoshi Shiotani, Hiroyuki Seshita, Kunihiko Yuyama, Takako Honda 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.
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020) as Frederica Hanashiro (voice) · Psycho-Pass: Providence (2023) as Frederica Hanashiro (voice) · Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian (2019) as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4109 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2012–2023
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Most frequent director
Naoyoshi Shiotani
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Naoyoshi Shiotani
Most common genre
Animation
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Psycho-Pass: Providence, Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars, Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian, Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.41 film | 7.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 7.01 film |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 7.32 films |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Virizion (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
7.6 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 Frederica Hanashiro (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.
6 of 6 films
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
Directed by Hiroyuki Seshita
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
Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Frederica Hanashiro (voice) gives Takako Honda a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Psycho-Pass: Providence (2023)
Performance score6.9
Psycho-Pass: Providence asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frederica Hanashiro (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian (2019)
Performance score6.7
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frederica Hanashiro (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment (2019)
Performance score6.6
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frederica Hanashiro (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 Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Start here. Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector is the clearest statement of what Takako Honda does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Takako 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.
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian (2019)
Same director as Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment (2019)
Same director as Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars (2021)
Keeps the science fiction register of Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment but asks for a colder reading of it.
Psycho-Pass: Providence (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
4 films together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
4 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorKunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of JusticeHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the StarsSix 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
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Frederica Hanashiro (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
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
as Virizion (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Frederica Hanashiro (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. Takako Honda 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
6 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
Psycho-Pass: Providence
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Psycho-Pass: Providence
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Frederica Hanashiro (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
as Virizion (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
as Virizion (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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