Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14733
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Haruka Fukuhara 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.
Haruka Fukuhara appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Haruka. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 drama, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mamoru Hatakeyama, Shinya Watada, Tsutomu Hanabusa and others, Haruka Fukuhara 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.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022) as Tsubame Koyasu (voice) · Hello World (2019) as Misuzu Kadenokouji (voice) · Sing a Bit of Harmony (2021) as Satomi Amano (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #14733 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Most frequent director
Tsutomu Hanabusa
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tsutomu Hanabusa
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Hello World, Kakegurui: The Movie, My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. Hello World, Kakegurui: The Movie, My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.92 films | 6.44 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.62 films | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 6.82 films |
| Crime | 6.41 film | — |
| Romance | 6.72 films | 7.21 film |
| Horror | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Hello World
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Misuzu Kadenokouji (voice).
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2022Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Kyojo Reunion
The current state of the argument.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Satomi Amano (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Tsubame Koyasu (voice)
Directed by Mamoru Hatakeyama
as Misuzu Kadenokouji (voice)
Directed by Tomohiko Ito
as Rio Miyaichi
Directed by Unknown
as Hiwa Natsunagi (voice)
Directed by Shinya Watada
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
Satomi Amano (voice)
Sing a Bit of Harmony (2021)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Satomi Amano (voice) gives Haruka Fukuhara a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tsubame Koyasu (voice)
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Performance score7.1
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tsubame Koyasu (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Misuzu Kadenokouji (voice)
Hello World (2019)
Performance score7.1
Hello World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Misuzu Kadenokouji (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rio Miyaichi
My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer (2019)
Performance score7.1
My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rio Miyaichi 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 Satomi Amano (voice)
Start here. Sing a Bit of Harmony is the clearest statement of what Haruka Fukuhara does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Haruka 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.
Hello World (2019)
Keeps the science fiction register of Sing a Bit of Harmony but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Hello World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hula Fulla Dance (2021)
A deliberate change of key after My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends- (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Hula Fulla Dance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
2 films together
Notably Kakegurui: The Movie
Yukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
Tomohiko Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably Hello World
Shinya Watada
Director
1 film together
Notably Hula Fulla Dance
Mamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kakegurui: The MovieMamoru Hatakeyama
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-Tomohiko 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
Hello WorldShinya Watada
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hula Fulla DanceYukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure Miracle UniverseSix 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
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Tsubame Koyasu (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
Hello World
as Misuzu Kadenokouji (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
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
as Tsubame Koyasu (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kyojo Reunion
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sing a Bit of Harmony
as Satomi Amano (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. Haruka Fukuhara 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Kakegurui: The Movie
as Arubiki Jueri
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kakegurui: The Movie
as Arubiki Jueri
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hello World
as Misuzu Kadenokouji (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kakegurui: The Movie
as Arubiki Jueri
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
as Himari Arisugawa / Cure Custard (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
as Himari Arisugawa / Cure Custard (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hula Fulla Dance
as Hiwa Natsunagi (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Kyojo Reunion
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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