Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#717
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Atsumi Tanezaki 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.
Atsumi Tanezaki appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Atsumi. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, science fiction, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shukou Murase, Tomoaki Koshida, Chen Dali and others, Atsumi Tanezaki 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.
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent (2026) as Sachiko (voice) · You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025) as Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023) as Hinatsuru (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #717 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Most frequent director
Soichi Masui
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Soichi Masui
Most common genre
Animation
24 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.8
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, Hello WeGo!, Her Blue Sky — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
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. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, Hello WeGo!, Her Blue Sky.
Most productive era
2020s
19 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 | 7.62 films | 6.18 films |
| Action | 6.01 film | 6.610 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.65 films |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 7.62 films | 4.02 films |
| Horror | — | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mizore Yoroizuka (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance
2025You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
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.
Career peak
2026Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Star Detective Pretty Cure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and The Pair’s Secret
The current state of the argument, as Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (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.
24 of 24 films
as Sachiko (voice)
Directed by Tomoaki Koshida
as Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (voice)
Directed by Kouji Ogawa
as Hinatsuru (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Puca / Cure Puca (voice)
Directed by Yuta Tanaka
as Mizore Yoroizuka (voice)
Directed by Naoko Yamada
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
Sachiko (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sachiko (voice) gives Atsumi Tanezaki a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (voice)
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Performance score9.5
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hinatsuru (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023)
Performance score8.4
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hinatsuru (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Puca / Cure Puca (voice)
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Performance score8.3
Pretty Cure All Stars F asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Puca / Cure Puca (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 Sachiko (voice)
Start here. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent is the clearest statement of what Atsumi Tanezaki does — accessible, 87 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Atsumi 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.
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
Keeps the animation register of Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Liz and the Blue Bird but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc but asks for a colder reading of it.
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert! (2025)
Keeps the action register of Pretty Cure All Stars F but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Soichi Masui
Director
4 films together
Notably Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
Shukou Murase
Director
2 films together
Notably MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably Liz and the Blue Bird
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably Her Blue Sky
Ryoji Masuyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Hello WeGo!
Kosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together
Notably Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Stargazer
Jun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together
Notably High School Fleet Movie
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure All Stars F
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Kouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together
Notably You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
Kiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
Mamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together
Notably Scarlet
Chen Dali
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie
Tomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Soichi Masui
Director
4 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack KidShukou Murase
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
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph CirceTomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the SerpentKouji Ogawa
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
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 FChen Dali
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dangers in My Heart: The MovieNaoko 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 BirdTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Her Blue SkyKiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of RageTakashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SPY x FAMILY CODE: WhiteMamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScarletYuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Black Iron SubmarineRyoji Masuyama
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hello WeGo!Kosuke Murayama
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - StargazerJun Nakagawa
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High School Fleet MovieSix 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Sachiko (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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (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
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
as Mace Flower (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Sachiko (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. Atsumi Tanezaki 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Sachiko (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Sachiko (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie
as Serina Yoshida (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Sachiko (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You and Idol Precure♪ the Movie For You! Our Kirakilala Concert!
as Iroha Inukai / Cure Friendy (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Her Blue Sky
as Chika Ootaki (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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