Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#262
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yuichi Nakamura 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.
Yuichi Nakamura appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yuichi. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved is the clearest case: a film rated 8.9 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 romance, science fiction, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jimmy Stone, Shoji Kawamori, Haruo Sotozaki and others, Yuichi Nakamura 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.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025) as Makoto Takiya (voice) · JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie (2025) as Satoru Gojo (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as Keizo (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #262 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.9
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Most frequent director
Shota Goshozono
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shota Goshozono
Most common genre
Animation
24 titles
Average runtime
1h 28m
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
6.7
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
2010s
7.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.2
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures.
Most productive era
2020s
22 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 | 7.51 film | 6.73 films |
| Action | 7.33 films | 7.413 films |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 8.32 films |
| Crime | — | 7.61 film |
| Romance | — | 3.73 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gray Fullbuster (voice).
Highest rated performance
2025Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
8.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
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 (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.
27 of 27 films
as Satoru Gojo (voice)
Directed by Shota Goshozono
as Makoto Takiya (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Satoru Gojo (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
as Basara Tojo (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Kei Michael Ignatov (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
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
Satoru Gojo (voice)
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie (2025)
Performance score9.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Satoru Gojo (voice) gives Yuichi Nakamura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Makoto Takiya (voice)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Performance score8.5
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Makoto Takiya (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Satoru Gojo (voice)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Performance score8.1
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Satoru Gojo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Basara Tojo (voice)
The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures (2018)
Performance score8.1
The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Basara Tojo (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 Satoru Gojo (voice)
Start here. JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie is the clearest statement of what Yuichi Nakamura does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yuichi 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.
The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures (2018)
Keeps the action register of JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Keeps the action register of The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Keeps the action register of Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector but asks for a colder reading of it.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025)
Keeps the fantasy register of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
2 films together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop Dream
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
2 films together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Shota Goshozono
Director
2 films together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably Liz and the Blue Bird
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Osomatsu the Movie
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably The World's Greatest First Love: Proposal
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably The Journey
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS Ryusoulger
Takayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Shunsuke Tada
Director
1 film together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Yoshihide Ibata
Director
1 film together
Notably Fruits Basket -prelude-
Yoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Concierge
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Labyrinth
Jimmy Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably The Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE - Yotsuba Succession Arc -
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager the Movie: Bebop DreamKenji 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 RisingShota Goshozono
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
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The MovieTatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 8.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be lovedHaruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity CastleSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster BattleSunghoo 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 0Takayuki 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 LightNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorNaoko Yamada
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Liz and the Blue BirdTakaharu 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 CrownTensai 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 NextMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMYoshihide Ibata
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fruits Basket -prelude-Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JourneyYoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConciergeKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS RyusoulgerShoji 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
LabyrinthTatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fairy Tail: Dragon CryYouichi Fujita
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Osomatsu the MovieShunsuke Tada
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The World's Greatest First Love: ProposalJimmy Stone
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE - Yotsuba Succession Arc -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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Makoto Takiya (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
Liz and the Blue Bird
as Masahiro Hashimoto (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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Makoto Takiya (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: You're Next
as Hawks (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
as Satoru Gojo (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. Yuichi Nakamura 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
24 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
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
as Makoto Takiya (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
as Satoru Gojo (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fruits Basket -prelude-
as Shigure Soma (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Concierge
as Tokiwa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
as Satoru Gojo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as Hawks (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Gray Fullbuster (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Journey
as Niza (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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