Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5548
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Satsuki Yukino 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.
Satsuki Yukino appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Satsuki. A Silent Voice: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. 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 Chika Nagaoka, Tomotaka Shibayama, Eisaku Kawanami and others, Satsuki Yukino 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.
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016) as Miyako Ishida (voice) · Gintama: The Very Final (2021) as Tae Shimura (voice) · Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell (2024) as Lalak (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5548 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2016–2024
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
A Silent Voice: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
A Silent Voice: The Movie
Most frequent director
Eisaku Kawanami
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Eisaku Kawanami
Most common genre
Animation
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.5
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip, A Silent Voice: The Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
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. Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip, A Silent Voice: The Movie.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 8.31 film | 6.42 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | 7.43 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.42 films |
| Crime | 6.41 film | 6.91 film |
| Romance | 8.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Miyako Ishida (voice). 8.3 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
2024My Oni Girl
The current state of the argument, as Mikuri Yatsuse (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.
8 of 8 films
as Miyako Ishida (voice)
Directed by Naoko Yamada
as Tae Shimura (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
as Lalak (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Mikuri Yatsuse (voice)
Directed by Tomotaka Shibayama
as Momiji Ooka (voice)
Directed by Chika Nagaoka
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
Miyako Ishida (voice)
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Miyako Ishida (voice) gives Satsuki Yukino a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tae Shimura (voice)
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Performance score7.9
Gintama: The Very Final asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tae Shimura (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lalak (voice)
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell (2024)
Performance score7.3
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lalak (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mikuri Yatsuse (voice)
My Oni Girl (2024)
Performance score7.1
My Oni Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mikuri Yatsuse (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 Miyako Ishida (voice)
Start here. A Silent Voice: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Satsuki Yukino does — accessible, 129 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Satsuki 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.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Keeps the animation register of A Silent Voice: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell (2024)
Keeps the action register of Gintama: The Very Final but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Oni Girl (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram (2024)
Keeps the animation register of My Oni Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together
Notably Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably A Silent Voice: The Movie
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Tomotaka Shibayama
Director
1 film together
Notably My Oni Girl
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eisaku Kawanami
Director
2 films together · 6.4 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 VolumeNaoko Yamada
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Silent Voice: The MovieChizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama: The Very FinalTomotaka Shibayama
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Oni GirlChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar PentagramYasuichiro Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Scarlet School TripSix 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
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Miyako Ishida (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
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Miyako Ishida (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
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Miyako Ishida (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Gintama: The Very Final
as Tae Shimura (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Miyako Ishida (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. Satsuki Yukino 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
8 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
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Miyako Ishida (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gintama: The Very Final
as Tae Shimura (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Oni Girl
as Mikuri Yatsuse (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip
as Momiji Ooka (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Gintama: The Very Final
as Tae Shimura (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Gintama: The Very Final
as Tae Shimura (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume
as Miho Amakata (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
as Momiji Ooka (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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