Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#672
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Koki Uchiyama 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.
Koki Uchiyama appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Koki. How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tadahiro Yoshihira, Yohei Kameyama, Yuki Igarashi and others, Koki Uchiyama 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.
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020) as Yuyiro (voice) · Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026) as Kurt (voice) · Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) as Hamaguchi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #672 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Most frequent director
Eisaku Kawanami
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Eisaku Kawanami
Most common genre
Animation
26 titles
Average runtime
1h 20m
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
6.7
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
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Unanswered//butterfly, Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie, THE RIBBON HERO — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 22 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Kimi dake ni Motetainda..
Most productive era
2020s
22 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 | 5.93 films | 5.812 films |
| Action | 7.81 film | 6.812 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | 4.51 film | 7.66 films |
| Romance | 6.12 films | 7.63 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gin (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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.
Most recent film
2026THE RIBBON HERO
The current state of the argument, as Velvet (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 Yuyiro (voice)
Directed by Fumie Muroi
as Kurt (voice)
Directed by Yohei Kameyama
as Rex (voice)
Directed by Tadahiro Yoshihira
as Philip / Kamen Rider W (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Hamaguchi (voice)
Directed by Hiroaki Akagi
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
Yuyiro (voice)
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Yuyiro (voice) gives Koki Uchiyama a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kurt (voice)
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026)
Performance score8.8
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kurt (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rex (voice)
Unanswered//butterfly (2026)
Performance score8.5
Unanswered//butterfly asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rex (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Philip / Kamen Rider W (voice)
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull (2024)
Performance score8.1
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Philip / Kamen Rider W (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 Yuyiro (voice)
Start here. How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film is the clearest statement of what Koki Uchiyama does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Koki 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.
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022)
Keeps the animation register of How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie (2026)
Keeps the action register of Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull but asks for a colder reading of it.
Unanswered//butterfly (2026)
Keeps the action register of Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
3 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Takahiro Omori
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotarubi no Mori e
Shun Kudo
Director
1 film together
Notably Kimi dake ni Motetainda.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Haruka Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
Fumie Muroi
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Hideki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably Shabake
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
Kazuto Arai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber × Ghost
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Hiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Bob Shirohata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fureru
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Shunsuke Ishikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-
Mamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together
Notably Scarlet
Yuki Igarashi
Director
1 film together
Notably THE RIBBON HERO
Yohei Kameyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
Tadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together
Notably Unanswered//butterfly
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
3 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeFumie Muroi
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story FilmYohei Kameyama
Director
1 film together · 8.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the MovieHiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The MovieTadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unanswered//butterflySusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster BattleSunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a TimeKenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingTaichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: The MovieTakahiro Omori
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotarubi no Mori eShunsuke Ishikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-Haruka Fujita
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory DollBob Shirohata
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2Mamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScarletKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Saber × GhostShoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FureruKazuto Arai
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Shun Kudo
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kimi dake ni Motetainda.Yuki Igarashi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
THE RIBBON HEROHideki Ito
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShabakeSix 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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Yuyiro (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Yuyiro (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Yuyiro (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Tomura Shigaraki (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Yuyiro (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. Koki Uchiyama 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
26 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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Yuyiro (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Yuyiro (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
100 METERS
as Zaitsu (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
as Benedict Blue (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
as Kurt (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
as Kurt (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kimi dake ni Motetainda.
as Shigekazu Toshida (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Scarlet
as (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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