Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#51594
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Kentaro Ito 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.
Kentaro Ito appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kentaro. The Ogre's Bride 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, fantasy, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chihiro Ikeda, Takahiro Ikezoe, Noboru Iguchi, Kentaro Ito 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.
The Ogre's Bride (2026) as Yota Kogetsu · Ride Your Wave (2019) as Wasabi Kawamura (voice) · Yowamushi Pedal (2020) as Shunsuke Imaizumi
Career snapshot
Ranked #51594 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
The Ogre's Bride
Average Nutevio score
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
The Ogre's Bride
Most frequent director
Chihiro Ikeda
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Chihiro Ikeda
Most common genre
Romance
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
7.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Ogre's Bride, Yowamushi Pedal — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.9
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. Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future, Ride Your Wave, The Flowers of Evil.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 7.12 films | 6.81 film |
| Action | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 7.61 film | 6.81 film |
| Romance | 7.12 films | 9.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nahane.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026The Ogre's Bride
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 Yota Kogetsu.
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 Yota Kogetsu
Directed by Chihiro Ikeda
as Wasabi Kawamura (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Takao Kasuga
Directed by Noboru Iguchi
as Shunsuke Imaizumi
Directed by Unknown
as Nahane
Directed by Takahiro Ikezoe
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
Yota Kogetsu
The Ogre's Bride (2026)
Performance score9.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Yota Kogetsu gives Kentaro Ito a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Wasabi Kawamura (voice)
Ride Your Wave (2019)
Performance score7.7
Ride Your Wave asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wasabi Kawamura (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Takao Kasuga
The Flowers of Evil (2019)
Performance score7.3
The Flowers of Evil asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Takao Kasuga is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shunsuke Imaizumi
Yowamushi Pedal (2020)
Performance score7.2
Yowamushi Pedal asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shunsuke Imaizumi 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 Yota Kogetsu
Start here. The Ogre's Bride is the clearest statement of what Kentaro Ito 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 Kentaro 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.
Ride Your Wave (2019)
Keeps the romance register of The Ogre's Bride but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Flowers of Evil (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Ride Your Wave but asks for a colder reading of it.
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Flowers of Evil — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Yowamushi Pedal (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Noboru Iguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flowers of Evil
Takahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
Chihiro Ikeda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ogre's Bride
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chihiro Ikeda
Director
1 film together · 9.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ogre's BrideTakahiro Ikezoe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Noboru Iguchi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Flowers of EvilSix 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
Ride Your Wave
as Wasabi Kawamura (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
The Ogre's Bride
as Yota Kogetsu
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Ogre's Bride
as Yota Kogetsu
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
as Nahane
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Ogre's Bride
as Yota Kogetsu
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. Kentaro Ito 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.
Romance Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in romance, 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
The Ogre's Bride
as Yota Kogetsu
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Ogre's Bride
as Yota Kogetsu
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Ogre's Bride
as Yota Kogetsu
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Ogre's Bride
as Yota Kogetsu
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Ogre's Bride
as Yota Kogetsu
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Movie: The Marvelous Fast ALFA-X That Comes From the Future
as Nahane
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ride Your Wave
as Wasabi Kawamura (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ride Your Wave
as Wasabi Kawamura (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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