Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#85408
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Tomohiro Sato works on quiet performance 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.
Tomohiro Sato appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tomohiro. Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~ is the clearest case: a film rated 6.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, adventure, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with , Tomohiro Sato 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.
Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~ (2026) as Kanemon Ohama · Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~ (2024) as Kanemon Ohama · Nintama Rantaro 13th Musical Ninjutsu Academy School Festival (2023) as Kanemon Ohama
Career snapshot
Ranked #85408 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2021–2026
Career length
5 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.5
Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~
Average Nutevio score
3.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~
Most frequent director
—
Longest collaboration
—
Most common genre
Comedy
2 titles
Average runtime
1h 8m
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
6.1
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
3.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~, Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps, Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~ — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
3.3
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
4.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~, Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps, Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 6.52 films |
| Action | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.52 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2021Bakuken: Shogun Imperial Match
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hiraga Gennai.
Highest rated performance
2023Nintama Rantaro 13th Musical Ninjutsu Academy School Festival
6.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
2026Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Kanemon Ohama.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~
2026
2h 14m
Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~
2024 · Comedy
2h 16m
Every title
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8 of 8 films
as Kanemon Ohama
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Kanemon Ohama
Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~ (2026)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kanemon Ohama gives Tomohiro Sato a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hiraga Gennai
Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps (2024)
Performance score6.5
Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hiraga Gennai is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kanemon Ohama
Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~ (2024)
Performance score6.5
Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~ asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kanemon Ohama is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hiraga
Bakuken: Tokyo Resurrection Deathmatch - Rematch (2023)
Performance score6.5
Bakuken: Tokyo Resurrection Deathmatch - Rematch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hiraga 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 Kanemon Ohama
Start here. Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~ is the clearest statement of what Tomohiro Sato does — accessible, 134 minutes, and rated 6.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tomohiro 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.
Bakuken: Tokyo Resurrection Deathmatch - Rematch (2023)
Same director as Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Nintama Rantaro 13th Musical Ninjutsu Academy School Festival (2023)
Same director as Bakuken: Tokyo Resurrection Deathmatch - Rematch, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps (2024)
Same director as Nintama Rantaro 13th Musical Ninjutsu Academy School Festival, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~ (2024)
Same director as Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Not enough analysed work in the catalogue yet. This section fills in automatically as titles are imported.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
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
Nintama Rantaro 13th Musical Ninjutsu Academy School Festival
as Kanemon Ohama
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Nintama Rantaro 13th Musical Ninjutsu Academy School Festival
as Kanemon Ohama
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Nintama Rantaro 13th Musical Ninjutsu Academy School Festival
as Kanemon Ohama
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~
as Kanemon Ohama
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~
as Kanemon Ohama
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. Tomohiro Sato 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
2 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~
as Kanemon Ohama
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Nintama Rantarou 13th Musical: ~Welcome to The Nintama's Cultural Festival!~
as Kanemon Ohama
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Nintama Rantaro 13th Musical Ninjutsu Academy School Festival
as Kanemon Ohama
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Nintama Rantarou's Theater Troupe: Dorm Stories ~5th years, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow~
as Kanemon Ohama
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Nintama Rantarou 13th Musical: ~Welcome to The Nintama's Cultural Festival!~
as Kanemon Ohama
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Nintama Rantarou 13th Musical: ~Welcome to The Nintama's Cultural Festival!~
as Kanemon Ohama
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Nintama Rantarou 14th Musical: Fifth Grade! Vs. Sixth Grade! ~Find The Treasure!!~
as Kanemon Ohama
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps
as Hiraga Gennai
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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