Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9765
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Haruka Kudou 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 Kudou appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Haruka. Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for music, romance, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomoya Takahashi, Kohdai Kakimoto, Tomomi Umetsu and others, Haruka Kudou 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.
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" (2019) as Yachiyo Tsuruhime · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1 (2023) as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (voice) · Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007) as Sayu Yagami (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #9765 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
Average Nutevio score
4.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
Most frequent director
Tomomi Umetsu
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tomomi Umetsu
Most common genre
Music
9 titles
Average runtime
2h 8m
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
2000s
7.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.9
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. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 7.41 film | — | 5.31 film |
| Action | — | — | 7.41 film |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Crime | 7.41 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sayu Yagami (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026BanG Dream! 10th Anniversary LIVE「In the name of BanG Dream!」
The current state of the argument, as Sayo Hikawa.
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 Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (voice)
Directed by Tomoya Takahashi
as Sayu Yagami (voice)
Directed by Tetsuro Araki
as Sayo Hikawa (voice)
Directed by Kohdai Kakimoto
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
Yachiyo Tsuruhime
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" (2019)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Yachiyo Tsuruhime gives Haruka Kudou a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1 (2023)
Performance score7.2
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sayu Yagami (voice)
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007)
Performance score7.2
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sayu Yagami (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sayo Hikawa
BanG Dream! 10th Anniversary LIVE「In the name of BanG Dream!」 (2026)
Performance score6.5
BanG Dream! 10th Anniversary LIVE「In the name of BanG Dream!」 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sayo Hikawa 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 Yachiyo Tsuruhime
Start here. Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" is the clearest statement of what Haruka Kudou does — accessible, 151 minutes, and rated 10.0 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.
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert" — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream! (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1 (2023)
Keeps the animation register of BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream! but asks for a colder reading of it.
BanG Dream! 10th Anniversary LIVE「In the name of BanG Dream!」 (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together
Notably BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd Stage
Tetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
Atsushi Mimura
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia I: Promise
Kohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together · 4.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd StageTomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1Tetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a GodKohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!Atsushi Mimura
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia I: PromiseSix 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
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Yachiyo Tsuruhime
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (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
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Yachiyo Tsuruhime
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Yachiyo Tsuruhime
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Yachiyo Tsuruhime
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 Kudou 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.
Music Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in music, 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
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Yachiyo Tsuruhime
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Yachiyo Tsuruhime
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
as Sayu Yagami (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Revue Starlight 2nd StarLive "Starry Desert"
as Yachiyo Tsuruhime
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1
as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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