Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10067
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Sayuri Yahagi 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.
Sayuri Yahagi appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sayuri. Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, versatility, 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, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Kitamura, Hiromitsu Kanazawa, Naoyoshi Shiotani and others, Sayuri Yahagi 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.
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020) as Obata Chiya (voice) · Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time (2026) as Manami Okuda (voice) · Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019) as Michiru Hyodo (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #10067 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Most frequent director
Masaki Kitamura
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Masaki Kitamura
Most common genre
Animation
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time, Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2, Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. Saekano the Movie: Finale.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 6.91 film | — |
| Action | — | 7.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | 6.72 films |
| Crime | — | 7.61 film |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Michiru Hyodo (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
7.6 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
2026Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
The current state of the argument, as Manami Okuda (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 Obata Chiya (voice)
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani
as Manami Okuda (voice)
Directed by Masaki Kitamura
as Michiru Hyodo (voice)
Directed by Kanta Kamei
as Hagimura Suzu (voice)
Directed by Hiromitsu Kanazawa
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
Obata Chiya (voice)
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Obata Chiya (voice) gives Sayuri Yahagi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Manami Okuda (voice)
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time (2026)
Performance score7.1
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manami Okuda (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Michiru Hyodo (voice)
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Performance score7.1
Saekano the Movie: Finale asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Michiru Hyodo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hagimura Suzu (voice)
Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2 (2021)
Performance score6.5
Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hagimura Suzu (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Obata Chiya (voice)
Start here. Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector is the clearest statement of what Sayuri Yahagi does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sayuri 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.
Saekano the Movie: Finale (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector but asks for a colder reading of it.
Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2 (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Saekano the Movie: Finale but asks for a colder reading of it.
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kanta Kamei
Director
1 film together
Notably Saekano the Movie: Finale
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2
Masaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorMasaki Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our TimeKanta Kamei
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saekano the Movie: FinaleHiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2Six 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
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Obata Chiya (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
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Michiru Hyodo (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
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Obata Chiya (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time
as Manami Okuda (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Obata Chiya (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. Sayuri Yahagi 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
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Obata Chiya (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Obata Chiya (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Michiru Hyodo (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Obata Chiya (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Obata Chiya (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
as Obata Chiya (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Michiru Hyodo (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Saekano the Movie: Finale
as Michiru Hyodo (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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