Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#34144
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Yoko Honna represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Yoko is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Yoko Honna appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yoko. Pretty Cure All Stars F is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, versatility, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yuta Tanaka, Kenji Nagasaki, Yukio Kaizawa and others, Yoko Honna 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.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023) as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice) · Whisper of the Heart (1995) as Shizuku Tsukishima (voice) · My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021) as Clair Voyance (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #34144 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1991–2023
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Average Nutevio score
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F
Most frequent director
Yuta Tanaka
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yuta Tanaka
Most common genre
Animation
5 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
7.1
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
7.0
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
8.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Pretty Cure All Stars F, My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
8.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
8.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Whisper of the Heart, Only Yesterday.
Most productive era
1990s
2 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 | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.52 films | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.01 film | 8.02 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.01 film | 8.31 film |
| Romance | 7.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1991Only Yesterday
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Taeko Okajima as a 5-Year-Old (voice).
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (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.
5 of 5 films
as Shizuku Tsukishima (voice)
Directed by Yoshifumi Kondo
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Taeko Okajima as a 5-Year-Old (voice)
Directed by Isao Takahata
as Clair Voyance (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
Directed by Yukio Kaizawa
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
Shizuku Tsukishima (voice)
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shizuku Tsukishima (voice) gives Yoko Honna a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score8.0
Pretty Cure All Stars F asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Taeko Okajima as a 5-Year-Old (voice)
Only Yesterday (1991)
Performance score7.6
Only Yesterday asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Taeko Okajima as a 5-Year-Old (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clair Voyance (voice)
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Performance score7.4
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clair Voyance (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 Shizuku Tsukishima (voice)
Start here. Whisper of the Heart is the clearest statement of what Yoko Honna does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yoko 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.
Only Yesterday (1991)
Keeps the drama register of Whisper of the Heart but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Cure Miracle Universe (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Only Yesterday but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Keeps the action register of Pretty Cure Miracle Universe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Keeps the action register of My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Isao Takahata
Director
1 film together
Notably Only Yesterday
Yoshifumi Kondo
Director
1 film together
Notably Whisper of the Heart
Yukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure All Stars FYoshifumi Kondo
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Whisper of the HeartKenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' MissionIsao Takahata
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only YesterdayYukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure Miracle UniverseSix 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
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (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
Whisper of the Heart
as Shizuku Tsukishima (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
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Clair Voyance (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Whisper of the Heart
as Shizuku Tsukishima (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. Yoko Honna 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
32 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
5 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
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Whisper of the Heart
as Shizuku Tsukishima (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pretty Cure All Stars F
as Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Clair Voyance (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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