Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2168
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Aya Endo 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.
Aya Endo appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aya. JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.6 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, animation, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shoji Kawamori, Shota Goshozono, Soichi Masui and others, Aya Endo 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.
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie (2025) as Shoko Ieiri (voice) · Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) as Shoko Ieiri (voice) · Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023) as Miwako Tomobe (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2168 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.6
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.6
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
Most frequent director
Soichi Masui
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Soichi Masui
Most common genre
Animation
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.3
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
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Labyrinth, JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie, Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.5
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. Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 7.34 films |
| Action | 5.82 films | 7.93 films |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | — |
| Romance | — | 7.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018K: Seven Stories Movie 6 - Circle Vision - Nameless Song
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Claudia Weismann.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
8.6 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 (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.
15 of 15 films
as Shoko Ieiri (voice)
Directed by Shota Goshozono
as Shoko Ieiri (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
as Cattleya Baudelaire (voice)
Directed by Haruka Fujita
as Miwako Tomobe (voice)
Directed by Soichi Masui
as Miwako Tomobe (voice)
Directed by Soichi Masui
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
Shoko Ieiri (voice)
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shoko Ieiri (voice) gives Aya Endo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shoko Ieiri (voice)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Performance score7.6
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shoko Ieiri (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cattleya Baudelaire (voice)
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019)
Performance score7.6
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cattleya Baudelaire (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miwako Tomobe (voice)
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)
Performance score7.5
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miwako Tomobe (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 Shoko Ieiri (voice)
Start here. JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie is the clearest statement of what Aya Endo 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 Aya 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.
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Keeps the fantasy register of Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out (2023)
Same director as Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Soichi Masui
Director
2 films together
Notably Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Osomatsu the Movie
Haruka Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Takayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark Witch
Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together
Notably JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Labyrinth
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Soichi Masui
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
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack KidShunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together · 3.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1Shota Goshozono
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The MovieSunghoo 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 0Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: The MovieHaruka Fujita
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory DollTakaharu 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 CrownShoji 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
LabyrinthYouichi 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 MovieYuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of StarsTakayuki Hamana
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 Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark WitchSix 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
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
as Shoko Ieiri (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
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
as Miwako Tomobe (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
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
as Shoko Ieiri (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Shoko Ieiri (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 Shoko Ieiri (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. Aya Endo 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
15 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
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
as Shoko Ieiri (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 Shoko Ieiri (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
as Miwako Tomobe (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
as Miwako Tomobe (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 Shoko Ieiri (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
as Sword Maiden (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
as Tenjo (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Drifting Home
as Ferris Wheel Girl (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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