Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#53649
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Hiroya Shimizu 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.
Hiroya Shimizu appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hiroya. Tokyo Revengers is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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, action, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Makoto Nagahisa, Tsutomu Hanabusa, Isao Yukisada and others, Hiroya Shimizu 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.
Tokyo Revengers (2021) as Shuji Hanma · Pompo the Cinephile (2021) as Gene Fini (voice) · Missing (2022) as Terumi Yamauchi
Career snapshot
Ranked #53649 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Tokyo Revengers
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Tokyo Revengers
Most frequent director
Tsutomu Hanabusa
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Tsutomu Hanabusa
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. BURN, Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1: Bloody Halloween - Destiny, Revolver Lily — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. Les Misérables, Sadako, Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 6.13 films | 7.08 films |
| Action | — | 7.14 films |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | 7.11 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.21 film |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 7.24 films |
| Romance | 5.91 film | — |
| Horror | 6.02 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Liverleaf
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mitsuru Aiba.
Career peak
2020Blue, Forest
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2021Tokyo Revengers
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026BURN
The current state of the argument, as Hikari.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Shuji Hanma
Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa
as Gene Fini (voice)
Directed by Takayuki Hirao
as Terumi Yamauchi
Directed by Shinzo Katayama
as Minamishi
Directed by Isao Yukisada
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
Shuji Hanma
Tokyo Revengers (2021)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shuji Hanma gives Hiroya Shimizu a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gene Fini (voice)
Pompo the Cinephile (2021)
Performance score7.6
Pompo the Cinephile asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gene Fini (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nami
Blue, Forest (2020)
Performance score7.6
Blue, Forest asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nami is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Terumi Yamauchi
Missing (2022)
Performance score7.5
Missing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Terumi Yamauchi 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 Shuji Hanma
Start here. Tokyo Revengers is the clearest statement of what Hiroya Shimizu does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hiroya 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.
Blue, Forest (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Tokyo Revengers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pompo the Cinephile (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Blue, Forest but asks for a colder reading of it.
Missing (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Pompo the Cinephile but asks for a colder reading of it.
Revolver Lily (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Missing — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
3 films together
Notably Tokyo Revengers
Eisuke Naito
Director
1 film together
Notably Liverleaf
Hideo Nakata
Director
1 film together
Notably Sadako
Michiko Namiki
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Shunsuke Kariyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue, Painful, Fragile
Takayuki Hirao
Director
1 film together
Notably Pompo the Cinephile
Shinzo Katayama
Director
1 film together
Notably Missing
Isao Yukisada
Director
1 film together
Notably Revolver Lily
Makoto Nagahisa
Director
1 film together
Notably BURN
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Tokyo RevengersTakayuki Hirao
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pompo the CinephileShinzo Katayama
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MissingIsao Yukisada
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Revolver LilyMichiko Namiki
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesShunsuke Kariyama
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue, Painful, FragileMakoto Nagahisa
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BURNEisuke Naito
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LiverleafHideo Nakata
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SadakoSix 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
Tokyo Revengers
as Shuji Hanma
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy
as Ryoki Tachibana
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Tokyo Revengers
as Shuji Hanma
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tokyo Revengers
as Shuji Hanma
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Tokyo Revengers
as Shuji Hanma
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. Hiroya Shimizu 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
11 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
Missing
as Terumi Yamauchi
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Tokyo Revengers
as Shuji Hanma
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy
as Ryoki Tachibana
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Outsider
as Banjo
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Tokyo Revengers
as Shuji Hanma
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Revolver Lily
as Minamishi
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pompo the Cinephile
as Gene Fini (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Outsider
as Banjo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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