Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#97718
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Haruka Kudo 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 Kudo appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Haruka. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 comedy, fantasy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shinji Imaoka, Shojiro Nakazawa, Takashi Shimizu and others, Haruka Kudo 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.
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger (2020) as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow · Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox (2023) as Melo · Suicide Forest Village (2021) as Miyu Katase
Career snapshot
Ranked #97718 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
Most frequent director
Shinji Imaoka
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Shinji Imaoka
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 15m
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
6.2
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
5.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.6
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. Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger.
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 | — | 4.64 films |
| Action | 5.61 film | 7.92 films |
| Comedy | — | 0.01 film |
| Crime | 5.61 film | 9.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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.
Most recent film
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.
6 of 6 films
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
Directed by Katsuya Watanabe
as Melo
Directed by Shojiro Nakazawa
as Miyu Katase
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Directed by Shinji Imaoka
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The defining work
#1
Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger (2020)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow gives Haruka Kudo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Melo
Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox (2023)
Performance score6.7
Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Melo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miyu Katase
Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Performance score6.7
Suicide Forest Village asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miyu Katase is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Grim Reaper Barber
Grim Reaper Barber (2026)
Performance score6.5
Grim Reaper Barber asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role 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 Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
Start here. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger is the clearest statement of what Haruka Kudo does — accessible, 55 minutes, and rated 9.0 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.
461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Keeps the drama register of 461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Suicide Forest Village but asks for a colder reading of it.
Grim Reaper Barber (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together
Notably Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
Takashi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Suicide Forest Village
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox
Shinji Imaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Grim Reaper Barber
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 9.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS PatrangerShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black FoxTakashi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Suicide Forest VillageHiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lupinranger vs Patranger vs KyurangerShinji Imaoka
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grim Reaper BarberSix 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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
as Reina Kashiwagi
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
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 Kudo 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
4 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
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
as Reina Kashiwagi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Suicide Forest Village
as Miyu Katase
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger VS Lupinranger VS Patranger
as Umika Hayami / Lupin Yellow
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
as Reina Kashiwagi
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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