Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9822
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Sachi Kokuryu works on transformation 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.
Sachi Kokuryu appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sachi. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising 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 transformation, screen presence, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bob Shirohata, Eisaku Kawanami, Kenji Nagasaki and others, Sachi Kokuryu 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.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) as Young Katsuki (voice) · The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2 (2023) as Arthur Pendragon (voice) · Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume (2021) as Kaede Kinjou (childhood) (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #9822 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
2019–2023
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Most frequent director
Bob Shirohata
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Bob Shirohata
Most common genre
Animation
4 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
6.4
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Mr. Osomatsu the Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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, Mr. Osomatsu the Movie.
Most productive era
2010s
2 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 | — | 6.71 film |
| Action | 7.81 film | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Katsuki (voice). 7.8 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
2023The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2
The current state of the argument, as Arthur Pendragon (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.
4 of 4 films
as Young Katsuki (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Arthur Pendragon (voice)
Directed by Bob Shirohata
as Kaede Kinjou (childhood) (voice)
Directed by Eisaku Kawanami
as Chibita (voice)
Directed by Youichi Fujita
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
Young Katsuki (voice)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Young Katsuki (voice) gives Sachi Kokuryu a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Arthur Pendragon (voice)
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2 (2023)
Performance score7.1
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Arthur Pendragon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kaede Kinjou (childhood) (voice)
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume (2021)
Performance score6.6
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kaede Kinjou (childhood) (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chibita (voice)
Mr. Osomatsu the Movie (2019)
Performance score6.5
Mr. Osomatsu the Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chibita (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 Young Katsuki (voice)
Start here. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising is the clearest statement of what Sachi Kokuryu does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sachi 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.
Mr. Osomatsu the Movie (2019)
Keeps the animation register of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising but asks for a colder reading of it.
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Mr. Osomatsu the Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2 (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Youichi Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Osomatsu the Movie
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
1 film together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Bob Shirohata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingBob Shirohata
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2Eisaku Kawanami
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeYouichi Fujita
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Osomatsu 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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (voice)
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: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (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. Sachi Kokuryu 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
4 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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Young Katsuki (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2
as Arthur Pendragon (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Kaede Kinjou (childhood) (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Kaede Kinjou (childhood) (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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