Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#905
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Satoshi Hino 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.
Satoshi Hino appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Satoshi. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoya Ando, Naoyuki Ito, Susumu Mitsunaka and others, Satoshi Hino 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.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as Kyojuro Rengoku (voice) · Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) as Noritoshi Kamo (voice) · The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022) as Isanari Uesugi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #905 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Most frequent director
Eisaku Kawanami
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Eisaku Kawanami
Most common genre
Animation
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.3
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
2020s
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames, OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom, HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 17 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?.
Most productive era
2020s
17 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 | — | 6.44 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 7.19 films |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 6.86 films |
| Romance | — | 7.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?
Where our catalogue meets this career.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
8.2 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
2026Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
The current state of the argument, as Kamui (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.
18 of 18 films
as Kyojuro Rengoku (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Ainz Ooal Gown / Momonga (voice)
Directed by Naoyuki Ito
as Noritoshi Kamo (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
as Isanari Uesugi (voice)
Directed by Masato Jimbo
as Daichi Sawamura (voice)
Directed by Susumu Mitsunaka
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
Kyojuro Rengoku (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kyojuro Rengoku (voice) gives Satoshi Hino a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ainz Ooal Gown / Momonga (voice)
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom (2024)
Performance score7.8
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ainz Ooal Gown / Momonga (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Noritoshi Kamo (voice)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Performance score7.6
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Noritoshi Kamo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Isanari Uesugi (voice)
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
Performance score7.5
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Isanari Uesugi (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 Kyojuro Rengoku (voice)
Start here. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the clearest statement of what Satoshi Hino does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Satoshi 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.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom (2024)
Keeps the animation register of The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Keeps the animation register of OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Shigeharu Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Chiaki Kon
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider OOO 10th: The Core Medals of Resurrection
Shinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbirds 55/GOGO
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Masato Jimbo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Naoyuki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
Naoya Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined CrossroadEisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free! the Final Stroke the First VolumeHaruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainSunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Masato Jimbo
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Quintessential Quintuplets MovieAyataka 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 KingSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster BattleNaoyuki Ito
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OVERLORD: The Sacred KingdomChizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama: The Very FinalChiaki Kon
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another WorldNaoya Ando
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in FlamesShigeharu Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider OOO 10th: The Core Medals of ResurrectionShinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbirds 55/GOGOSix 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- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Kyojuro Rengoku (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
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Isanari Uesugi (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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Kyojuro Rengoku (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad
as Ultraman Titas
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Kyojuro Rengoku (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. Satoshi Hino 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
15 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- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Kyojuro Rengoku (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- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Kyojuro Rengoku (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
as Isanari Uesugi (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Noritoshi Kamo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Kyojuro Rengoku (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom
as Ainz Ooal Gown / Momonga (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Nao Serizawa (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume
as Nao Serizawa (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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