Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#923
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kenichi Suzumura 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 Suzumura appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kenichi. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoya Ando, Haruo Sotozaki, Chris Huang and others, Kenichi Suzumura 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- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Obanai Iguro (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as Obanai Iguro (voice) · Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) as Tomohisa Sakayori (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #923 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
Most frequent director
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Most common genre
Animation
21 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.2
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom, Godzilla: The Planet Eater — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.7
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. Mr. Osomatsu the Movie, Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom, Godzilla: The Planet Eater.
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 | 6.31 film | 6.46 films |
| Action | 6.42 films | 6.716 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.44 films |
| Crime | — | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.31 film | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Godzilla: The Planet Eater
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Akira Sakaki (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
8.2 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
The current state of the argument, as Tomohisa Sakayori (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.
27 of 27 films
as Obanai Iguro (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Obanai Iguro (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Sougo Okita (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
as Tomohisa Sakayori (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Shinn Asuka (voice)
Directed by Mitsuo Fukuda
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
Obanai Iguro (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Obanai Iguro (voice) gives Kenichi Suzumura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Obanai Iguro (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Performance score7.8
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Obanai Iguro (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sougo Okita (voice)
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Performance score7.3
Gintama: The Very Final asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sougo Okita (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tomohisa Sakayori (voice)
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Performance score7.2
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tomohisa Sakayori (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 Obanai Iguro (voice)
Start here. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the clearest statement of what Kenichi Suzumura does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 8.2 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.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM (2024)
Keeps the action register of Gintama: The Very Final but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Keeps the action register of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
Keeps the fantasy register of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
3 films together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO
Chika Nagaoka
Director
2 films together
Notably Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
Shunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together
Notably Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla: The Planet Eater
Jouji Furuta
Director
1 film together
Notably Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Osomatsu the Movie
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably SHIROBAKO the Movie
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together
Notably Bright: Samurai Soul
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS Ryusoulger
Kazuto Arai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
Toshifumi Akai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Akira Amemiya
Director
1 film together
Notably Gridman Universe
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Chris Huang
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter
Naoya Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZEROHaruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainEisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeChika Nagaoka
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Scarlet BulletShunsuke Tada
Director
2 films together · 3.1 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 1Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama: The Very FinalAkira Amemiya
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gridman UniverseMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMToshifumi Akai
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: SolomonTsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SHIROBAKO the MovieShojiro Nakazawa
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 Den-O: The Birth of Pretty Den-O!Hiroyuki Seshita
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Godzilla: The Planet EaterNaoya Ando
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in FlamesKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS RyusoulgerChris Huang
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final ChapterKazuto Arai
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Osomatsu the MovieJouji Furuta
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE KingdomRyuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.2 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 ChroniclesKyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bright: Samurai SoulSix 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- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Obanai Iguro (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
Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
as Romani Archaman (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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Obanai Iguro (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger
as Mashin Fire (archive recording)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Obanai Iguro (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 Suzumura 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
21 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- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Obanai Iguro (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- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Obanai Iguro (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Uta no Prince-sama Maji LOVE Starish Tours
as Masato Hijirikawa (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
as Osamu Inoue (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Obanai Iguro (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
as Romani Archaman (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Momotaro Mikoshiba (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Uta no Prince-sama Maji LOVE Starish Tours
as Masato Hijirikawa (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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