Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2921
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kenichi Ogata 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.
Kenichi Ogata appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kenichi. Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era is the clearest case: a film rated 8.6 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 action, mystery, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Katsuya Shigehara, Chika Nagaoka, Ken Yamamoto and others, Kenichi Ogata 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.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024) as Tanabe Trainer (voice) · Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025) as Hiroshi Agasa (voice) · One Piece Film Red (2022) as Five Elders (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2921 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2019–2025
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.6
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.6
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
Most frequent director
Chika Nagaoka
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Chika Nagaoka
Most common genre
Animation
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.5
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. Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback, Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram, Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era — 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. Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past, Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire.
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 | — | 8.61 film |
| Action | 6.62 films | 6.96 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | 7.01 film | 8.61 film |
| Crime | 6.62 films | 6.76 films |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
Where our catalogue meets this career, as King Dorrente (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
8.6 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
2025Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
The current state of the argument, as Hiroshi Agasa (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.
11 of 11 films
as Tanabe Trainer (voice)
Directed by Ken Yamamoto
as Hiroshi Agasa (voice)
Directed by Katsuya Shigehara
as Five Elders (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Hiroshi Agasa (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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The defining work
#1
Tanabe Trainer (voice)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tanabe Trainer (voice) gives Kenichi Ogata a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hiroshi Agasa (voice)
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025)
Performance score7.1
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hiroshi Agasa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hiroshi Agasa (voice)
Detective Conan: The Story of Ai Haibara: Black Iron Mystery Train (2023)
Performance score7.1
Detective Conan: The Story of Ai Haibara: Black Iron Mystery Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hiroshi Agasa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Five Elders (voice)
One Piece Film Red (2022)
Performance score7.1
One Piece Film Red asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Five Elders (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 Tanabe Trainer (voice)
Start here. Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era is the clearest statement of what Kenichi Ogata does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kenichi 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.
One Piece Film Red (2022)
Keeps the fantasy register of Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: The Story of Ai Haibara: Black Iron Mystery Train (2023)
Same director as One Piece Film Red, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief (2024)
Same director as Detective Conan: The Story of Ai Haibara: Black Iron Mystery Train, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025)
Keeps the mystery register of Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Chika Nagaoka
Director
3 films together
Notably Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
Hatsuki Tsuji
Director
1 film together
Notably Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Ken Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
Katsuya Shigehara
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chika Nagaoka
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar PentagramKen Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New EraKatsuya Shigehara
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: One-Eyed FlashbackYuzuru 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 SubmarineHatsuki Tsuji
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lupin the Third: Prison of the PastSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Bride of HalloweenSix 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
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Tanabe Trainer (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
One Piece Film Red
as Five Elders (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
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Tanabe Trainer (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
One Piece Film Red
as Five Elders (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Tanabe Trainer (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. Kenichi Ogata 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
11 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
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Tanabe Trainer (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback
as Hiroshi Agasa (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
One Piece Film Red
as Five Elders (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief
as Hiroshi Agasa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Tanabe Trainer (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
One Piece Film Red
as Five Elders (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Tanabe Trainer (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief
as Hiroshi Agasa (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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