Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8266
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Shintaro Asanuma 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.
Shintaro Asanuma appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Shintaro. given the Movie: To the Sea is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Kitamura, Satoshi Morota, Noriko Hashimoto and others, Shintaro Asanuma 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.
given the Movie: To the Sea (2024) as Ugetsu Murata (voice) · Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!! (2021) as Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice) · Given (2020) as Ugetsu Murata (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #8266 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
given the Movie: To the Sea
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Given
Most frequent director
Masaki Kitamura
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Masaki Kitamura
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 10m
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
6.1
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. Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | — | 4.13 films |
| Action | 7.11 film | 5.56 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.72 films |
| Romance | — | 7.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Alien Shadow "Zena" (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
7.9 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
2026The Invisibles
The current state of the argument.
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 Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice)
Directed by Shojiro Nakazawa
as Juran / Zenkai Juran (voice)
Directed by Kyouhei Yamaguchi
as Ugetsu Murata (voice)
Directed by Noriko Hashimoto
as Ugetsu Murata (voice)
Directed by Hikaru Yamaguchi
as Ryūji Takahashi (voice)
Directed by Tomotaka Shibayama
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
Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice)
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!! (2021)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice) gives Shintaro Asanuma a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Juran / Zenkai Juran (voice)
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger (2022)
Performance score7.8
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Juran / Zenkai Juran (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ugetsu Murata (voice)
given the Movie: To the Sea (2024)
Performance score7.7
given the Movie: To the Sea asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ugetsu Murata (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ugetsu Murata (voice)
Given (2020)
Performance score7.7
Given asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ugetsu Murata (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 Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice)
Start here. Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!! is the clearest statement of what Shintaro Asanuma does — accessible, 27 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Shintaro 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.
Given (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!! — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Given — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
given the Movie: To the Sea (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
My Oni Girl (2024)
Keeps the animation register of given the Movie: To the Sea but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Hikaru Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Given
Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero Chronicles
Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger
Katsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. Zenkaiger
Tomotaka Shibayama
Director
1 film together
Notably My Oni Girl
Noriko Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably given the Movie: To the Sea
Satoshi Morota
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Vram: Route Stomach
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.
Noriko Hashimoto
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
given the Movie: To the SeaShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!Hikaru Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GivenKyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. SenpaigerMasaki 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 TimeTomotaka 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 GirlKoichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!Hiromitsu 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 2Ryuta Tasaki
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Saber + Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger: Super Hero ChroniclesKatsuya Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. ZenkaigerSatoshi Morota
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Vram: Route StomachSix 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
given the Movie: To the Sea
as Ugetsu Murata (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
given the Movie: To the Sea
as Ugetsu Murata (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
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
as Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (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 Hiroto Maehara (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
as Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (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. Shintaro Asanuma 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in action, 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
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
as Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
as Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
given the Movie: To the Sea
as Ugetsu Murata (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
My Oni Girl
as Ryūji Takahashi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
as Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger vs. Kiramager vs. Senpaiger
as Juran / Zenkai Juran (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Given
as Ugetsu Murata (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
as Zyuran / Zenkai Zyuran (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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