Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#25790
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Tasuku Emoto 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.
Tasuku Emoto appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tasuku. Samurai Vengeance is the clearest case: a film rated 8.8 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 romance, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Takashi Minamoto, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Haruhiko Arai and others, Tasuku Emoto 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.
Samurai Vengeance (2026) as Soichiro Kase · The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) as Saika Sagehari · Inu-Oh (2022) as Shogun Ashikaga (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #25790 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.8
Samurai Vengeance
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.8
Samurai Vengeance
Most frequent director
Haruhiko Arai
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Haruhiko Arai
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.3
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Island of Cats, The Great War of Archimedes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. The Island of Cats, The Great War of Archimedes.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 6.82 films | 6.312 films |
| Action | 6.71 film | 7.92 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.71 film |
| Romance | — | 2.42 films |
| Horror | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kentaro Wakamura.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.8 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
2026The Samurai and the Prisoner
The current state of the argument, as Saika Sagehari.
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 Soichiro Kase
Directed by Takashi Minamoto
as Saika Sagehari
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
as Shogun Ashikaga (voice)
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa
as Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider No. 2
Directed by Hideaki Anno
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
Soichiro Kase
Samurai Vengeance (2026)
Performance score9.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Soichiro Kase gives Tasuku Emoto a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Saika Sagehari
The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)
Performance score8.3
The Samurai and the Prisoner asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Saika Sagehari is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shogun Ashikaga (voice)
Inu-Oh (2022)
Performance score7.7
Inu-Oh asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shogun Ashikaga (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider No. 2
Shin Kamen Rider (2023)
Performance score7.4
Shin Kamen Rider asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider No. 2 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 Soichiro Kase
Start here. Samurai Vengeance is the clearest statement of what Tasuku Emoto does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 8.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tasuku 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.
The Island of Cats (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Samurai Vengeance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Inu-Oh (2022)
Keeps the drama register of The Island of Cats but asks for a colder reading of it.
Shin Kamen Rider (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Inu-Oh but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Shin Kamen Rider but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Haruhiko Arai
Director
2 films together
Notably A Spoiling Rain
Shunsuke Kariyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue, Painful, Fragile
Takahiro Horie
Director
1 film together
Notably Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?
Masaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together
Notably Inu-Oh
Eiichiro Hasumi
Director
1 film together
Notably Re/Member
Hideaki Anno
Director
1 film together
Notably Shin Kamen Rider
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
1 film together
Notably The Samurai and the Prisoner
Takashi Minamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Samurai Vengeance
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haruhiko Arai
Director
2 films together · 5.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Spoiling RainTakashi Minamoto
Director
1 film together · 8.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Samurai VengeanceKiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Samurai and the PrisonerMasaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Inu-OhHideaki Anno
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shin Kamen RiderTakahiro Horie
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?Eiichiro Hasumi
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Re/MemberShunsuke Kariyama
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue, Painful, FragileSix 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
Samurai Vengeance
as Soichiro Kase
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Inu-Oh
as Shogun Ashikaga (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
Samurai Vengeance
as Soichiro Kase
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Samurai and the Prisoner
as Saika Sagehari
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Samurai Vengeance
as Soichiro Kase
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. Tasuku Emoto 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
14 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
Samurai Vengeance
as Soichiro Kase
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Samurai Vengeance
as Soichiro Kase
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Inu-Oh
as Shogun Ashikaga (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Samurai and the Prisoner
as Saika Sagehari
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Samurai Vengeance
as Soichiro Kase
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Samurai Vengeance
as Soichiro Kase
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Inu-Oh
as Shogun Ashikaga (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Shin Kamen Rider
as Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider No. 2
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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