Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#21229
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ryo Yoshizawa 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.
Ryo Yoshizawa appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ryo. Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 animation, war, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Fumitoshi Oizaki, Shinsuke Sato, Sang-il Lee and others, Ryo Yoshizawa 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.
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls (2026) as Ei Sei (Yin Zheng) · Sakura (2020) as Hajime · Kokuho (2025) as Kikuo Tachibana
Career snapshot
Ranked #21229 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
Most frequent director
Shinsuke Sato
6 films together
Longest collaboration
6×
With Shinsuke Sato
Most common genre
Action
10 titles
Average runtime
2h 0m
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
6.4
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Les Misérables, Kingdom, Her Blue Sky — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 4 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. Les Misérables, Kingdom, Her Blue Sky.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 | — | 7.36 films |
| Action | 6.92 films | 7.38 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.71 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.33 films |
| Crime | — | 7.23 films |
| Romance | 7.41 film | 6.52 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Bleach
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Uryu Ishida.
Highest rated performance
2020Sakura
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Kokuho
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
The current state of the argument, as Ei Sei (Yin Zheng).
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.
19 of 19 films
as Kikuo Tachibana
Directed by Sang-il Lee
as Ei Sei (Yin Zheng)
Directed by Shinsuke Sato
as Manjiro Sano
Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa
as Shinnosuke Kanamuro / Shinno (voice)
Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai
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The defining work
#1
Kikuo Tachibana
Kokuho (2025)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kikuo Tachibana gives Ryo Yoshizawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ei Sei (Yin Zheng)
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls (2026)
Performance score8.2
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ei Sei (Yin Zheng) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hajime
Sakura (2020)
Performance score8.2
Sakura asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hajime is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Manjiro Sano
Tokyo Revengers (2021)
Performance score8.1
Tokyo Revengers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manjiro Sano 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 Kikuo Tachibana
Start here. Kokuho is the clearest statement of what Ryo Yoshizawa does — accessible, 174 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ryo 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.
Her Blue Sky (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Kokuho — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Sakura (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Her Blue Sky — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Tokyo Revengers (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Sakura but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls (2026)
Keeps the action register of Tokyo Revengers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shinsuke Sato
Director
6 films together
Notably Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
Tsutomu Hanabusa
Director
3 films together
Notably Tokyo Revengers
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably Her Blue Sky
Michiko Namiki
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Shunsuke Kariyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue, Painful, Fragile
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
Yusuke Taki
Director
1 film together
Notably In Love and Deep Water
Sang-il Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Kokuho
Fumitoshi Oizaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Sgt. Frog
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shinsuke Sato
Director
6 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 6 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kingdom 5: The Clash of SoulsTsutomu Hanabusa
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Tokyo RevengersSang-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
KokuhoKenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' MissionTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Her Blue SkyMichiko Namiki
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesShunsuke 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, FragileYusuke Taki
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In Love and Deep WaterFumitoshi Oizaki
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sgt. FrogSix 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
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
as Ei Sei (Yin Zheng)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Kokuho
as Kikuo Tachibana
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sakura
as Hajime
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: World Heroes' Mission
as Rody Soul (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kokuho
as Kikuo Tachibana
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. Ryo Yoshizawa 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
10 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
Sakura
as Hajime
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Tokyo Revengers
as Manjiro Sano
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Kokuho
as Kikuo Tachibana
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
In Love and Deep Water
as Suguru Ubukata
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
as Rody Soul (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kingdom: Return of the Great General
as Ei Sei (Yin Zheng)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kokuho
as Kikuo Tachibana
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Her Blue Sky
as Shinnosuke Kanamuro / Shinno (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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