Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7291
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kenji Akabane works on transformation 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.
Kenji Akabane appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kenji. Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, screen presence, charisma. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, action, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tatsuya Yoshihara, Kyouhei Yamaguchi, Koichi Sakamoto, Kenji Akabane 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.
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) as Nomo (voice) · Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO (2020) as Green Kirama Stone (voice) · Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger (2022) as Mashin Mach (archive recording)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7291 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2019–2025
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
Average Nutevio score
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
Most frequent director
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Most common genre
Action
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 6m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
2020s
7.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger, Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS Ryusoulger — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.5
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.6
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. Cencoroll Connect.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Action | — | 7.54 films |
| Romance | — | 8.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gotouda (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2025Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
8.1 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 Nomo (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.
5 of 5 films
as Nomo (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara
as Green Kirama Stone (voice)
Directed by Kyouhei Yamaguchi
as Mashin Mach (archive recording)
Directed by Kyouhei Yamaguchi
as Gotouda (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Mashin Mach (voice)
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
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
Nomo (voice)
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nomo (voice) gives Kenji Akabane a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Green Kirama Stone (voice)
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO (2020)
Performance score7.5
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Green Kirama Stone (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mashin Mach (archive recording)
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger (2022)
Performance score7.3
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mashin Mach (archive recording) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gotouda (voice)
Cencoroll Connect (2019)
Performance score7.0
Cencoroll Connect asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gotouda (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 Nomo (voice)
Start here. Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc is the clearest statement of what Kenji Akabane does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kenji 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.
Cencoroll Connect (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO (2020)
Keeps the science fiction register of Cencoroll Connect but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS Ryusoulger (2021)
Keeps the action register of Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger (2022)
Keeps the action register of Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS Ryusoulger but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
2 films together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS Ryusoulger
Tatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
2 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZEROTatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze ArcKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mashin Sentai Kiramager VS RyusoulgerSix 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
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (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
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (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
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (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 Mach (archive recording)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (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. Kenji Akabane 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in action, 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
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO
as Green Kirama Stone (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger
as Mashin Mach (archive recording)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
as Nomo (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger
as Mashin Mach (archive recording)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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