Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6054
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Banjo Ginga 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.
Banjo Ginga appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Banjo. Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoya Ando, Ai Yoshimura, Chika Nagaoka and others, Banjo Ginga 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.
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026) as Housen (voice) · Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare (2023) as Bakuryuu Brachiosaurus (Voice) · Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) as King Vegeta (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6054 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Most frequent director
Naoya Ando
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Naoya Ando
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
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
7.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dragon Ball Super: Broly — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
8.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. One Piece Film: Strong World.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 7.23 films |
| Action | — | 7.71 film | 7.17 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.72 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.62 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.83 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009One Piece Film: Strong World
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Scarlet (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
8.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Housen (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.
11 of 11 films
as Housen (voice)
Directed by Naoya Ando
as Bakuryuu Brachiosaurus (Voice)
Directed by Hisashi Kimura
as King Vegeta (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Nagamine
as Scarlet (voice)
Directed by Munehisa Sakai
as Kiyoomi Goto (voice) (archive footage)
Directed by Shunsuke Nakashige
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
Housen (voice)
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Housen (voice) gives Banjo Ginga a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bakuryuu Brachiosaurus (Voice)
Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare (2023)
Performance score7.7
Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bakuryuu Brachiosaurus (Voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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King Vegeta (voice)
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)
Performance score7.5
Dragon Ball Super: Broly asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. King Vegeta (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Scarlet (voice)
One Piece Film: Strong World (2009)
Performance score7.2
One Piece Film: Strong World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Scarlet (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 Housen (voice)
Start here. Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames is the clearest statement of what Banjo Ginga does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Banjo 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.
One Piece Film: Strong World (2009)
Keeps the animation register of Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)
Keeps the animation register of One Piece Film: Strong World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare (2023)
Keeps the action register of Dragon Ball Super: Broly but asks for a colder reading of it.
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- (2024)
Keeps the action register of Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Munehisa Sakai
Director
1 film together
Notably One Piece Film: Strong World
Tatsuya Nagamine
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Hisashi Kimura
Director
1 film together
Notably Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE
Kotono Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Shunsuke Nakashige
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
Ai Yoshimura
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rose of Versailles
Naoya Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoya Ando
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in FlamesHisashi Kimura
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru AbareTatsuya Nagamine
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dragon Ball Super: BrolyMunehisa Sakai
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Piece Film: Strong WorldShunsuke Nakashige
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-Takashi 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: WhiteAi Yoshimura
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rose of VersaillesChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar PentagramKotono Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gold Kingdom and Water KingdomHisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-EvolutionHiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYESix 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
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
as King Vegeta (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
One Piece Film: Strong World
as Scarlet (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
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
as Housen (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
as Bakuryuu Brachiosaurus (Voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
as Housen (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. Banjo Ginga 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
10 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
One Piece Film: Strong World
as Scarlet (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
as Bakuryuu Brachiosaurus (Voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Rose of Versailles
as General Jarjayes (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
as Brian D Kadokura (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
as Bakuryuu Brachiosaurus (Voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
as Snidel (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE
as Additional Voices
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
as Brian D Kadokura (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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