Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#547
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tetsu Inada 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.
Tetsu Inada appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tetsu. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising 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, Shojiro Nakazawa, Katsuya Watanabe and others, Tetsu Inada 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.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) as Endeavor (voice) · Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020) as True Assassin (voice) · Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) as Nappa (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #547 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Most frequent director
Shunsuke Tada
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shunsuke Tada
Most common genre
Action
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.2
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson.
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 | 7.01 film | 7.05 films |
| Action | 6.26 films | 6.310 films |
| Comedy | 7.51 film | 7.32 films |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 6.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nappa (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
7.8 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
The current state of the argument, as Tetsu Inada (appearance).
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
as Endeavor (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as True Assassin (voice)
Directed by Tomonori Sudo
as Varys Truss (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
as Nappa (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Nagamine
as Endeavor (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
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
Endeavor (voice)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Endeavor (voice) gives Tetsu Inada a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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True Assassin (voice)
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020)
Performance score7.5
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. True Assassin (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Varys Truss (voice)
Promare / Side: Galo (2019)
Performance score7.5
Promare / Side: Galo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Varys Truss (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nappa (voice)
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)
Performance score7.5
Dragon Ball Super: Broly asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nappa (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 Endeavor (voice)
Start here. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising is the clearest statement of what Tetsu Inada does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tetsu 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.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)
Keeps the action register of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising but asks for a colder reading of it.
Promare / Side: Galo (2019)
Keeps the action register of Dragon Ball Super: Broly but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020)
Keeps the action register of Promare / Side: Galo but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Keeps the action register of Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Director
2 films together
Notably Promare / Side: Galo
Tomonori Sudo
Director
2 films together
Notably Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
Masayuki Kojima
Director
2 films together
Notably Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
2 films together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Tatsuya Nagamine
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Takaomi Kanasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson
Kazuya Kamihoriuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Kazuto Arai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
Daiji Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 20th: Fireball Booster
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger
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.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingMasayuki Kojima
Director
2 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Made in Abyss: Journey's DawnTomonori Sudo
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring SongHiroyuki Imaishi
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Promare / Side: GaloShunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together · 3.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1Tatsuya Nagamine
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dragon Ball Super: BrolyDaiji Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu AcademyKatsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 20th: Fireball BoosterTakaomi Kanasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of CrimsonMasaki 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 TimeTensai Okamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: You're NextKazuto Arai
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Ryuta 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 ChroniclesShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS BoonboomgerKazuya Kamihoriuchi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!Six 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
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
as True Assassin (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
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
as True Assassin (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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Endeavor (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
TJPW Grand Princess '26
as Tetsu Inada (appearance)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Endeavor (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. Tetsu Inada 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
16 catalogue titles in action, 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
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn
as Hablog (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn
as Hablog (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
as Hassan of the Cursed Arm (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
as Habolg (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Endeavor (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as Endeavor (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song
as True Assassin (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Promare
as Varys Truss (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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