Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#145
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kana Hanazawa 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.
Kana Hanazawa appears in 34 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kana. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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 action, mystery, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shoji Kawamori, Haruo Sotozaki, Tomoki Kobayashi and others, Kana Hanazawa 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.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023) as Mitsuri Kanroji (voice) · Your Name. (2016) as Teacher Yuki-chan (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as Mitsuri Kanroji (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #145 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
34
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Most frequent director
Naoyoshi Shiotani
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Naoyoshi Shiotani
Most common genre
Animation
34 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.6
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Weathering with You, Twilight, Cencoroll Connect — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Weathering with You, Twilight, Cencoroll Connect.
Most productive era
2020s
23 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 | 7.83 films | 5.66 films |
| Action | 6.23 films | 7.58 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | 7.41 film | 7.34 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 7.32 films |
| Romance | 8.03 films | 5.55 films |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Akane Tsunemori (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Your Name.
8.7 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
2026Labyrinth
The current state of the argument, as (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
2023 · Action
2h 6m
Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy: A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels!
2020 · Action
1h 52m
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
34 of 34 films
as Mitsuri Kanroji (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Teacher Yuki-chan (voice)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
as Ichika Nakano (voice)
Directed by Masato Jimbo
as Ayaka Sajyou (voice)
Directed by Shun Enokido
as Rika Orimoto (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
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
Mitsuri Kanroji (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc (2023)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mitsuri Kanroji (voice) gives Kana Hanazawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Teacher Yuki-chan (voice)
Your Name. (2016)
Performance score8.4
Your Name. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Teacher Yuki-chan (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ichika Nakano (voice)
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ (2024)
Performance score8.2
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ichika Nakano (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ayaka Sajyou (voice)
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Performance score8.1
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ayaka Sajyou (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 Mitsuri Kanroji (voice)
Start here. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc is the clearest statement of what Kana Hanazawa does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kana 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.
Your Name. (2016)
Keeps the animation register of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Your Name. but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Keeps the action register of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊ (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
5 films together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Makoto Shinkai
Director
3 films together
Notably Your Name.
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together
Notably Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Sunghoo Park
Director
2 films together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Masato Jimbo
Director
2 films together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets＊
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
Masaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Fuminori Kizaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Human Lost
Yutaka Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Twilight
Hirofumi Ogura
Director
1 film together
Notably Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy: A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels!
Takuya Sato
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy-Go-Lucky Days
Atsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together
Notably Goodbye, Don Glees!
Yoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Concierge
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets∽
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Tomoki Kobayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Summer Pockets Season 1: Omnibus - A Lifetime's Worth of Summer Breaks
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Labyrinth
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
5 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorMakoto Shinkai
Director
3 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Your Name.Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together · 8.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Masato Jimbo
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Quintessential Quintuplets＊Sunghoo Park
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Godzilla: City on the Edge of BattleShunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together · 3.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-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 GirlAtsuko Ishizuka
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goodbye, Don Glees!Yoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConciergeHirofumi Ogura
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Yutaka Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwilightShoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LabyrinthYukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Quintessential Quintuplets∽Takuya Sato
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy-Go-Lucky DaysFuminori Kizaki
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Human LostTomoki Kobayashi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Summer Pockets Season 1: Omnibus - A Lifetime's Worth of Summer BreaksSix 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Mitsuri Kanroji (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
Your Name.
as Teacher Yuki-chan (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
Your Name.
as Teacher Yuki-chan (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
as Hildegard von Mariendorf
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Mitsuri Kanroji (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. Kana Hanazawa 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
34 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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Mitsuri Kanroji (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Mitsuri Kanroji (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Suzume
as Tsubame Iwato (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
as Kitagawa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Decisive Battle Arc
as Mitsuri Kanroji (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation
as Flare (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
as The Girl with Black Hair (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Your Name.
as Teacher Yuki-chan (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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