Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1801
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hiroyuki Yoshino 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.
Hiroyuki Yoshino appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hiroyuki. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, animation, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomomi Kamiya, Takashi Katagiri, Kenji Nagasaki and others, Hiroyuki Yoshino 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.
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- (2026) as Garçon (voice) · Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025) as Kaiju No. 9 (voice) · My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021) as Present Mic (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1801 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
Most frequent director
Hiroyuki Imaishi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Hiroyuki Imaishi
Most common genre
Animation
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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
7.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-, Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon, SPY x FAMILY CODE: White — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.7
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.7
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. Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution, Promare, Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | — | 8.02 films |
| Action | 6.65 films | 7.63 films |
| Comedy | 6.33 films | 7.12 films |
| Romance | 7.42 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2017Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Where our catalogue meets this career, as God of the Old Books Market (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
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. The current state of the argument, as Garçon (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.
12 of 12 films
as Garçon (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Kaiju No. 9 (voice)
Directed by Tomomi Kamiya
as Remi Puguna (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
as Present Mic (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Remi Puguna (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Garçon (voice)
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- (2026)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Garçon (voice) gives Hiroyuki Yoshino a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kaiju No. 9 (voice)
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025)
Performance score7.8
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kaiju No. 9 (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Remi Puguna (voice)
Promare / Side: Galo (2019)
Performance score7.7
Promare / Side: Galo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Remi Puguna (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Present Mic (voice)
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Performance score7.4
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Present Mic (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 Garçon (voice)
Start here. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- is the clearest statement of what Hiroyuki Yoshino does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hiroyuki 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.
Promare / Side: Galo (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Promare (2019)
Same director as Promare / Side: Galo, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Keeps the action register of Promare but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025)
Keeps the action register of My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Director
2 films together
Notably Promare / Side: Galo
Masaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Yukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably Her Blue Sky
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
Motonori Sakakibara
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably SHIROBAKO the Movie
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Tomomi Kamiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hiroyuki Imaishi
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
Promare / Side: GaloTomomi Kamiya
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaiju No. 8: Mission ReconKenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' MissionTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Her Blue SkyMasaaki 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 GirlTakashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SPY x FAMILY CODE: WhiteTsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SHIROBAKO 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 - EvolutionYukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure Miracle UniverseYuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of StarsSix 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
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon
as Kaiju No. 9 (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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Garçon (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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Garçon (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Garçon (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Garçon (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. Hiroyuki Yoshino 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
12 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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Garçon (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Garçon (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Garçon (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
as Umio (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Garçon (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
as Franky Franklin (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
as Prunce (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
as Umio (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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