Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#24227
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ryusei Yokohama 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.
Ryusei Yokohama appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ryusei. Unreachable is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, mystery, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Takahiro Hasui, Michihito Fujii, Nobuhiro Doi and others, Ryusei Yokohama 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.
Unreachable (2025) as Tenma Takasugi · Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway (2026) as Kazuaki Omae (voice) · Kokuho (2025) as Shunsuke Ogaki
Career snapshot
Ranked #24227 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Unreachable
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Unreachable
Most frequent director
Michihito Fujii
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Michihito Fujii
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Go Away, Ultramarine, L♡DK: Two Loves Under One Roof — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Go Away, Ultramarine, L♡DK: Two Loves Under One Roof.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 7.31 film | 6.37 films |
| Action | — | 7.81 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.83 films |
| Crime | — | 7.81 film |
| Romance | 5.81 film | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nanakusa.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Unreachable
8.5 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
2026You, Like a Star
The current state of the argument, as Kai Aono.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Tenma Takasugi
Directed by Nobuhiro Doi
as Shunsuke Ogaki
Directed by Sang-il Lee
as Shori
Directed by Michihito Fujii
as Kazuaki Omae (voice)
Directed by Takahiro Hasui
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
Tenma Takasugi
Unreachable (2025)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tenma Takasugi gives Ryusei Yokohama a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shunsuke Ogaki
Kokuho (2025)
Performance score8.1
Kokuho asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shunsuke Ogaki is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nanakusa
Go Away, Ultramarine (2019)
Performance score7.9
Go Away, Ultramarine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nanakusa is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shori
The Parades (2024)
Performance score7.8
The Parades asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shori 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 Tenma Takasugi
Start here. Unreachable is the clearest statement of what Ryusei Yokohama does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ryusei 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.
Go Away, Ultramarine (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Unreachable but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Parades (2024)
Keeps the fantasy register of Go Away, Ultramarine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kokuho (2025)
Keeps the drama register of The Parades but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Kokuho — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michihito Fujii
Director
4 films together
Notably The Parades
Sang-il Lee
Director
2 films together
Notably Kokuho
Noriyoshi Sakuma
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Turn to Kill: The Movie
Hideo Nakata
Director
1 film together
Notably Usogui
Nobuhiro Doi
Director
1 film together
Notably Unreachable
Takahiro Hasui
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michihito Fujii
Director
4 films together · 5.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The ParadesSang-il Lee
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
KokuhoNobuhiro Doi
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnreachableTakahiro Hasui
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the HighwayHideo Nakata
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UsoguiNoriyoshi Sakuma
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your Turn to Kill: The MovieSix 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
Unreachable
as Tenma Takasugi
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 Shunsuke Ogaki
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Unreachable
as Tenma Takasugi
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
as Kazuaki Omae (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Unreachable
as Tenma Takasugi
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. Ryusei Yokohama 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
8 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
Go Away, Ultramarine
as Nanakusa
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
as Kazuaki Omae (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Kokuho
as Shunsuke Ogaki
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Go Away, Ultramarine
as Nanakusa
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
as Kazuaki Omae (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway
as Kazuaki Omae (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kokuho
as Shunsuke Ogaki
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Go Away, Ultramarine
as Nanakusa
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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