Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26566
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Nana Mori 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.
Nana Mori appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nana. 5 Centimeters per Second is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 drama, romance, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Makoto Nagahisa, Ayuko Tsukahara, Sang-il Lee and others, Nana Mori 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.
5 Centimeters per Second (2025) as Kanae Sumida · Kokuho (2025) as Akiko · Liar x Liar (2021) as Minato Takatsuki
Career snapshot
Ranked #26566 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
5 Centimeters per Second
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Weathering with You
Most frequent director
Makoto Nagahisa
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Makoto Nagahisa
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
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
2010s
7.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Weathering with You, Tokyo Ghoul 'S' — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
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. Weathering with You, Tokyo Ghoul 'S'.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 7.81 film | 7.010 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.72 films |
| Crime | — | 7.61 film |
| Romance | 7.81 film | 7.45 films |
| Horror | 6.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hina Amano (voice).
Career peak
2021Liar x Liar
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
7.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026BURN
The current state of the argument, as Ju-Ju.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Minato Takatsuki
Directed by Unknown
as Hina Amano (voice)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
as Nana
Directed by Michihito Fujii
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
Minato Takatsuki
Liar x Liar (2021)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Minato Takatsuki gives Nana Mori a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hina Amano (voice)
Weathering with You (2019)
Performance score8.1
Weathering with You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hina Amano (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kanae Sumida
5 Centimeters per Second (2025)
Performance score7.9
5 Centimeters per Second asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kanae Sumida is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Akiko
Kokuho (2025)
Performance score7.6
Kokuho asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Akiko 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 Minato Takatsuki
Start here. Liar x Liar is the clearest statement of what Nana Mori does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nana 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.
Weathering with You (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Liar x Liar but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Parades (2024)
Keeps the fantasy register of Weathering with You but asks for a colder reading of it.
5 Centimeters per Second (2025)
Keeps the drama register of The Parades but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kokuho (2025)
Keeps the drama register of 5 Centimeters per Second but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Weathering with You
Shunsuke Kariyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue, Painful, Fragile
Shunji Iwai
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Letter
Michihito Fujii
Director
1 film together
Notably The Parades
Sang-il Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Kokuho
Ayuko Tsukahara
Director
1 film together
Notably 1st Kiss
Makoto Nagahisa
Director
1 film together
Notably BURN
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sang-il Lee
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KokuhoMakoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weathering with YouMichihito Fujii
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ParadesAyuko Tsukahara
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
1st KissShunji Iwai
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last LetterShunsuke Kariyama
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue, Painful, FragileMakoto Nagahisa
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BURNSix 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
5 Centimeters per Second
as Kanae Sumida
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
5 Centimeters per Second
as Kanae Sumida
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
5 Centimeters per Second
as Kanae Sumida
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kokuho
as Akiko
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Liar x Liar
as Minato Takatsuki
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. Nana Mori 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery
as Yurina Kurasaka
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery
as Yurina Kurasaka
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
5 Centimeters per Second
as Kanae Sumida
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery
as Yurina Kurasaka
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
5 Centimeters per Second
as Kanae Sumida
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tokyo Ghoul 'S'
as Yoriko Kosaka
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Weathering with You
as Hina Amano (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
5 Centimeters per Second
as Kanae Sumida
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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