Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1832
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hiroshi Kamiya 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.
Hiroshi Kamiya appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hiroshi. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent 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, transformation, screen presence. 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 Tomoaki Koshida, Kiyotaka Suzuki, Shunsuke Ishikawa and others, Hiroshi Kamiya 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.
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent (2026) as Medicine Seller (voice) · Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024) as Levi Ackerman (voice) · HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024) as Ittetsu Takeda (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1832 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Most frequent director
Koichi Sakamoto
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Koichi Sakamoto
Most common genre
Animation
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.9
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
2020s
7.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent, Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage, BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI- — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.4
Across 17 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly.
Most productive era
2020s
17 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 | 7.01 film | 7.45 films |
| Action | 6.75 films | 7.29 films |
| Comedy | 6.92 films | 7.42 films |
| Crime | 5.61 film | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 7.43 films | 6.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nicholas Wong (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
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. The current state of the argument, as Medicine Seller (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.
25 of 25 films
as Medicine Seller (voice)
Directed by Tomoaki Koshida
as Levi Ackerman (voice)
Directed by Yuichiro Hayashi
as Hikaru Kusakabe (voice)
Directed by Shoko Nakamura
as Medicine Seller (voice)
Directed by Kiyotaka Suzuki
as Medicine Seller (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Medicine Seller (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Medicine Seller (voice) gives Hiroshi Kamiya a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Levi Ackerman (voice)
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Performance score8.6
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Levi Ackerman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hikaru Kusakabe (voice)
Dou kyu sei – Classmates (2016)
Performance score8.0
Dou kyu sei – Classmates asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hikaru Kusakabe (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Medicine Seller (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
Performance score7.8
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Medicine Seller (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 Medicine Seller (voice)
Start here. Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent is the clearest statement of what Hiroshi Kamiya does — accessible, 87 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hiroshi 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.
Dou kyu sei – Classmates (2016)
Keeps the animation register of Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent but asks for a colder reading of it.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Dou kyu sei – Classmates but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
Keeps the mystery register of Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager Spin-Off: Yodonna
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie
Shoko Nakamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Dou kyu sei – Classmates
Masaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Hiroyuki Kato
Director
1 film together
Notably Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger
Tomonori Sudo
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly
Motonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Osomatsu the Movie
Yuta Murano
Director
1 film together
Notably Kakushigoto Theatrical Edition
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably The Journey
Hideki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor
Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together
Notably Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Takayuki Shibasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Geats × Revice: Movie Battle Royale
Tetsuro Kodama
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Kotono Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Shunsuke Ishikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-
Kiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
Tomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager Spin-Off: YodonnaTomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the SerpentYuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACKSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster BattleTetsuro Kodama
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: Super HeroShoko Nakamura
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dou kyu sei – ClassmatesShunsuke Ishikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-Masaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night Is Short, Walk On GirlKyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words Bubble Up Like Soda PopKiyotaka 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 RageYuta Murano
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kakushigoto Theatrical EditionYuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Black Iron SubmarineHideki 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 VisitorKobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JourneyTomonori Sudo
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost ButterflyNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PSYCHO-PASS: The MovieMotonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - EvolutionKotono 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 KingdomTakayuki Shibasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Geats × Revice: Movie Battle RoyaleYouichi Fujita
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Osomatsu the MovieRyuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero ChroniclesHiroyuki 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 KyurangerSix 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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Medicine Seller (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
Dou kyu sei – Classmates
as Hikaru Kusakabe (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
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Medicine Seller (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
as Shou Ronpo (voice) / Ryu Commander (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Medicine Seller (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. Hiroshi Kamiya 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
20 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 III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Medicine Seller (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Medicine Seller (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
as Saladin (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Medicine Seller (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
as Medicine Seller (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Levi Ackerman (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
as Director of School Festival Operations (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Journey
as Zurara (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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