Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1604
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ryohei Kimura 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.
Ryohei Kimura appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ryohei. HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 music, animation, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Susumu Mitsunaka, Eisaku Kawanami, Kunihiko Ikuhara and others, Ryohei Kimura 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.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024) as Kotaro Bokuto (voice) · Weathering with You (2019) as Kimura (voice) · RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic (2022) as Shoma Takakura (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1604 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2018–2025
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Weathering with You
Most frequent director
Eisaku Kawanami
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Eisaku Kawanami
Most common genre
Animation
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 28m
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
6.1
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Weathering with You, Cencoroll Connect, Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Weathering with You, Cencoroll Connect, Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 6.82 films | 5.45 films |
| Action | 7.61 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.96 films |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film |
| Romance | 7.02 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 David Shield (young) (voice).
Highest rated performance
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Genshin Impact: Star Odyssey
The current state of the argument, as Tartaglia.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Shoma Takakura (voice)
Directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara
as Kotaro Bokuto (voice)
Directed by Susumu Mitsunaka
as Kimura (voice)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
as David Shield (young) (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Shuu (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Shoma Takakura (voice)
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic (2022)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shoma Takakura (voice) gives Ryohei Kimura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kotaro Bokuto (voice)
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Performance score7.6
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kotaro Bokuto (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kimura (voice)
Weathering with You (2019)
Performance score7.6
Weathering with You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kimura (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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David Shield (young) (voice)
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)
Performance score7.4
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David Shield (young) (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 Shoma Takakura (voice)
Start here. RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic is the clearest statement of what Ryohei Kimura does — accessible, 124 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ryohei 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: Two Heroes (2018)
Keeps the animation register of RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic but asks for a colder reading of it.
Weathering with You (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of My Hero Academia: Two Heroes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cencoroll Connect (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Weathering with You but asks for a colder reading of it.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Cencoroll Connect 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
Kunihiko Ikuhara
Director
2 films together
Notably RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
Jouji Furuta
Director
1 film together
Notably Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom
Makoto Shinkai
Director
1 film together
Notably Weathering with You
Hideki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably Shabake
Baku Kinoshita
Director
1 film together
Notably ODDTAXI in the Woods
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
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 VolumeKunihiko Ikuhara
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival TacticSusumu 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 BattleMakoto 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 YouKenji 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: Two HeroesBaku Kinoshita
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ODDTAXI in the WoodsJouji Furuta
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Utano Princesama Maji LOVE KingdomHideki 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
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Shoma Takakura (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
Weathering with You
as Kimura (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
Weathering with You
as Kimura (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
as Kotaro Bokuto (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Shoma Takakura (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. Ryohei Kimura 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
13 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
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Shoma Takakura (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Shoma Takakura (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Weathering with You
as Kimura (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
ODDTAXI in the Woods
as Ayumu Gouriki (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
as David Shield (young) (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
as David Shield (young) (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Hiyori Tono (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Genshin Impact: Star Odyssey
as Tartaglia
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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