Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#168
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tomokazu Sugita 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.
Tomokazu Sugita appears in 31 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tomokazu. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy 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 action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoya Ando, Masaki Kitamura, Tomohiko Ito and others, Tomokazu Sugita 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 Absolute Conspiracy (2021) as Space Fear-Demon Zett · Gintama: The Very Final (2021) as Gintoki Sakata (voice) · Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Gyomei Himejima (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #168 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
31
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
Average Nutevio score
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
Most frequent director
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Most common genre
Animation
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 26m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
6.7
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
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames, Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time, The Keeper of the Camphor Tree — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 24 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.3
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. Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms.
Most productive era
2020s
24 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 | 7.61 film | 7.92 films |
| Action | 7.25 films | 7.716 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Remo (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
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
2026Labyrinth
The current state of the argument, as Tōsaka (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.
31 of 31 films
as Space Fear-Demon Zett
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Gintoki Sakata (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
as Gintoki Sakata (voice)
Directed by Naoya Ando
as Gyomei Himejima (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as (voice)
Directed by Tomohiko Ito
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
Space Fear-Demon Zett
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Space Fear-Demon Zett gives Tomokazu Sugita a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gintoki Sakata (voice)
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Performance score8.7
Gintama: The Very Final asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gintoki Sakata (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gintoki Sakata (voice)
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Performance score8.5
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gintoki Sakata (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gyomei Himejima (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gyomei Himejima (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Space Fear-Demon Zett
Start here. Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy is the clearest statement of what Tomokazu Sugita does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tomokazu 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Keeps the action register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Keeps the action register of Gintama: The Very Final but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree (2026)
Keeps the animation register of Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames 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 Absolute Conspiracy
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
3 films together
Notably Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together
Notably Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Yasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Mari Okada
Director
1 film together
Notably Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Tatsuya Nagamine
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Hiroshi Koujina
Director
1 film together
Notably Ryoma! The Prince of Tennis
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Toshifumi Akai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Takayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light
Tetsuro Kodama
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Hiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Labyrinth
Tomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
Masaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
Naoya Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together · 8.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute ConspiracyKyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
3 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainHiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Godzilla: City on the Edge of BattleChizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama: The Very FinalNaoya Ando
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in FlamesTomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Keeper of the Camphor TreeTetsuro Kodama
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: Super HeroTakayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by LightTatsuya 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: BrolyMari Okada
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maquia: When the Promised Flower BloomsYasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the SkyTakaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's CrownMasaki 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 TimeToshifumi Akai
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: SolomonTakahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LabyrinthRyuta 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 ChroniclesHiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star SageHiroshi Koujina
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ryoma! The Prince of TennisSix 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 Absolute Conspiracy
as Space Fear-Demon Zett
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
100 METERS
as Onomichi (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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Space Fear-Demon Zett
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
One Piece Film Red
as Charlotte Katakuri (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Space Fear-Demon Zett
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. Tomokazu Sugita 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
22 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 Space Fear-Demon Zett
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 Space Fear-Demon Zett
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
100 METERS
as Onomichi (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
as (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 Space Fear-Demon Zett
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation
as X Fortress (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
100 METERS
as Onomichi (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream
as King Oradin (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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