Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1532
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Cho 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.
Cho appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Cho. Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 mystery, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kiyotaka Suzuki, Kazuaki Imai, Hideki Ito and others, Cho 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.
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie (2019) as Loriya (voice) · KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson (2019) as Head Researcher (voice) · Redline (2009) as Inuki Boss (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1532 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2009–2025
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
Most frequent director
Kiyotaka Suzuki
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kiyotaka Suzuki
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.6
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
2000s
7.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Redline, One Piece Film: Strong World — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.5
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. Redline, One Piece Film: Strong World.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | — | — | 6.82 films |
| Action | 7.51 film | 7.02 films | 6.92 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.51 film | 6.71 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Redline
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Inuki Boss (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
8.1 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
2025Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
The current state of the argument, as Yoshimichi Tokita (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.
10 of 10 films
as Loriya (voice)
Directed by Yutaka Uemura
as Yoshimichi Tokita (voice)
Directed by Kiyotaka Suzuki
as Head Researcher (voice)
Directed by Takaomi Kanasaki
as Brook (voice)
Directed by Munehisa Sakai
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
Loriya (voice)
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie (2019)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Loriya (voice) gives Cho a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Yoshimichi Tokita (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
Performance score7.6
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yoshimichi Tokita (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Head Researcher (voice)
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson (2019)
Performance score7.3
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Head Researcher (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Inuki Boss (voice)
Redline (2009)
Performance score7.3
Redline asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Inuki Boss (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 Loriya (voice)
Start here. Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Cho does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Cho 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.
Redline (2009)
Keeps the action register of Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Piece Film: Strong World (2009)
Keeps the animation register of Redline but asks for a colder reading of it.
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of One Piece Film: Strong World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
Keeps the fantasy register of KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson 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
Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja
Yutaka Uemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
Takaomi Kanasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Hideki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor
Kazuaki Imai
Director
1 film together
Notably Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Earth Symphony
Kiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yutaka Uemura
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The MovieTakaomi Kanasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of CrimsonMunehisa 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 WorldKiyotaka 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 RageHideki Ito
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange VisitorKazuaki Imai
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Earth SymphonyHisatoshi 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-EvolutionJumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman NinjaSix 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
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
as Loriya (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 Brook (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
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
as Loriya (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world! Legend of Crimson
as Head Researcher (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
as Loriya (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. Cho 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
as Yoshimichi Tokita (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
as Loriya (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Earth Symphony
as Takiren (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
as Yoshimichi Tokita (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
as Loriya (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
One Piece Film Red
as Brook (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Earth Symphony
as Takiren (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Batman Ninja
as The Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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