Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#295
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka 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.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yoshitsugu. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 science fiction, fantasy, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tadahiro Yoshihira, Haruo Sotozaki, Chika Nagaoka and others, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Inosuke Hashibira (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as Inosuke Hashibira (voice) · Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) as Ultimate Mechamaru (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #295 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Most frequent director
Haruo Sotozaki
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Haruo Sotozaki
Most common genre
Animation
30 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.5
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
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, Unanswered//butterfly, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 23 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.5
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. Kimi dake ni Motetainda., Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion, Saekano the Movie: Finale.
Most productive era
2020s
23 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 | 6.73 films | 6.75 films |
| Action | 7.12 films | 7.214 films |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.74 films | 6.66 films |
| Crime | — | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 6.84 films | 6.75 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nakazawa (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
8.2 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 Kazuto Kirigaya / Kirito (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.
30 of 30 films
as Fuutarou Uesugi (voice)
Directed by Masato Jimbo
as Inosuke Hashibira (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Kirito (voice)
Directed by Ayako Kono
as Inosuke Hashibira (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Bell Cranel (voice)
Directed by Katsushi Sakurabi
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
Fuutarou Uesugi (voice)
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fuutarou Uesugi (voice) gives Yoshitsugu Matsuoka a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Inosuke Hashibira (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score8.2
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Inosuke Hashibira (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kirito (voice)
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
Performance score7.9
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kirito (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Inosuke Hashibira (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Performance score7.8
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Inosuke Hashibira (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 Fuutarou Uesugi (voice)
Start here. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie is the clearest statement of what Yoshitsugu Matsuoka does — accessible, 136 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yoshitsugu 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.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019)
Keeps the romance register of The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Keeps the action register of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Keeps the action register of Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
3 films together
Notably Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
3 films together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Ayako Kono
Director
2 films together
Notably Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Masato Jimbo
Director
2 films together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together
Notably No Game No Life: Zero
Hiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together
Notably Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson Lord
Kanta Kamei
Director
1 film together
Notably Saekano the Movie: Finale
Katsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together
Notably Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Shun Kudo
Director
1 film together
Notably Kimi dake ni Motetainda.
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Keisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together
Notably My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Shinji Ishihira
Director
1 film together
Notably Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Toshiki Hirano
Director
1 film together
Notably Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
Tadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together
Notably Unanswered//butterfly
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainYukihiro Miyamoto
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: RebellionAyako Kono
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
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless NightChiaki Kon
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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2Masato Jimbo
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Quintessential Quintuplets MovieEisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeSunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Game No Life: ZeroToshiki Hirano
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Baki Hanma VS Kengan AshuraKatsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the OrionTakaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's CrownHiroshi Nishikiori
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trinity Seven: Heaven's Library & Crimson LordShun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar PentagramTadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unanswered//butterflyKanta Kamei
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saekano the Movie: FinaleShinji Ishihira
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sasaki and Miyano: GraduationKeisuke Inoue
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The MovieShun Kudo
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kimi dake ni Motetainda.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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Inosuke Hashibira (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
No Game No Life: Zero
as Riku Dola (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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Inosuke Hashibira (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
as Hijiri Fukushiro (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Fuutarou Uesugi (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. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka 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
30 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
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion
as Nakazawa (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Inosuke Hashibira (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation
as Taiga Hirano (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion
as Nakazawa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Inosuke Hashibira (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
as Spearman (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kimi dake ni Motetainda.
as Aki Sahashi (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Kimi dake ni Motetainda.
as Aki Sahashi (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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