Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#540
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nobuhiko Okamoto 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.
Nobuhiko Okamoto appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nobuhiko. Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Kitamura, Haruo Sotozaki, Tensai Okamura and others, Nobuhiko Okamoto 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.
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) as Takao (voice) · Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) as Genya Shinazugawa (voice) · Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak (2024) as Nijigon (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #540 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Most frequent director
Kenji Nagasaki
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kenji Nagasaki
Most common genre
Animation
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 27m
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
7.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | — | 0.02 films |
| Action | 7.73 films | 7.67 films |
| Comedy | 7.71 film | 7.83 films |
| Romance | 7.71 film | 6.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Katsuki Bakugo (voice).
Career peak
2019My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2022Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
8.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
The current state of the argument, as Karma Akabane (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.
16 of 16 films
as Takao (voice)
Directed by Hiroaki Akagi
as Katsuki Bakugo (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Katsuki Bakugo (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Genya Shinazugawa (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Nijigon (voice)
Directed by Ryuta Tasaki
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
Takao (voice)
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Takao (voice) gives Nobuhiko Okamoto a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Katsuki Bakugo (voice)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Performance score8.1
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Katsuki Bakugo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Katsuki Bakugo (voice)
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Performance score7.9
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Katsuki Bakugo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Genya Shinazugawa (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. Genya Shinazugawa (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 Takao (voice)
Start here. Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Nobuhiko Okamoto does — accessible, 73 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nobuhiko 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.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
Same director as My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak (2024)
Keeps the action register of My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)
Keeps the action register of Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
2 films together
Notably WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! - Chapter 2
Katsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together
Notably Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably The World's Greatest First Love: Proposal
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger
Hiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Takayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark Witch
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Tensai Okamura
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: You're Next
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Masaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingTakaharu Ozaki
Director
2 films together · 0.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! - Chapter 2Hiroaki 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 MovieHaruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity CastleRyuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future DaybreakSusumu 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 BattleKatsushi Sakurabi
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the OrionAyataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingKyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. SenpaigerMasaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our TimeTensai Okamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: You're NextTakayuki Hamana
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Klutzy Witch: Fuuka and the Dark WitchTomoya Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The World's Greatest First Love: ProposalSix 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 Infinity Castle
as Genya Shinazugawa (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
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Bete Loga (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
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
as Takao (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
as Liebe (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
as Takao (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. Nobuhiko Okamoto 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
14 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 Infinity Castle
as Genya Shinazugawa (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 Infinity Castle
as Genya Shinazugawa (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Bete Loga (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
as Katsuki Bakugo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak
as Nijigon (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: You're Next
as Katsuki Bakugo (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion
as Bete Loga (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Katsuki Bakugo (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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