Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#996
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sumire Morohoshi 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.
Sumire Morohoshi appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sumire. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 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, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shojiro Nakazawa, Seiji Mizushima, Susumu Mitsunaka and others, Sumire Morohoshi 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.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021) as PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (voice) · Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple (2018) as Kyouka Izumi (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021) as PallaPalla (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #996 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Most frequent director
Naoyoshi Shiotani
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Naoyoshi Shiotani
Most common genre
Animation
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
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
2010s
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 7 catalogue films 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. Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 7.61 film | 7.26 films |
| Action | 7.34 films | 5.27 films |
| Comedy | 8.11 film | 7.81 film |
| Crime | 6.83 films | — |
| Romance | — | 7.23 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Water Genesect (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
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
2026Liberated from Paradise: Resonance of the Heart
The current state of the argument, as Penem (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.
19 of 19 films
as PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Tiné Chelc (voice)
Directed by Shun Enokido
as Kyouka Izumi (voice)
Directed by Takuya Igarashi
as PallaPalla (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Hitoka Yachi (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
PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (voice) gives Sumire Morohoshi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tiné Chelc (voice)
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Performance score7.8
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tiné Chelc (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kyouka Izumi (voice)
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple (2018)
Performance score7.8
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kyouka Izumi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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PallaPalla (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Performance score7.7
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. PallaPalla (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 PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (voice)
Start here. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 is the clearest statement of what Sumire Morohoshi does — accessible, 80 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sumire 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.
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple (2018)
Keeps the action register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Keeps the action register of Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (2023)
Keeps the action register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 but asks for a colder reading of it.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
4 films together
Notably Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Kunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
Mamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boy and the Beast
Takuya Igarashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Shin Oonuma
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless Girl
Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together
Notably Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Hiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage
Yoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Concierge
Shun Enokido
Director
1 film together
Notably Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-
Susumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together
Notably HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
Seiji Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably Liberated from Paradise: Resonance of the Heart
Shojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS Boonboomger
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
4 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2Takuya Igarashi
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead AppleSusumu Mitsunaka
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster BattleTaichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: The MovieMamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Boy and the BeastShun Enokido
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-Kyohei Ishiguro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words Bubble Up Like Soda PopYoshimi Itazu
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConciergeHisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-EvolutionKunihiko Yuyama
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend AwakenedShin Oonuma
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless GirlHiroaki Ando
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star SageShojiro Nakazawa
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger VS BoonboomgerSeiji Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Liberated from Paradise: Resonance of the HeartSix 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
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Daisy Magnolia (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
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Daisy Magnolia (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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
as Hitoka Yachi (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (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. Sumire Morohoshi 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
18 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
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
as Kyouka Izumi (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
as Marie (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
as Kyouka Izumi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as PallaPalla / Sailor Pallas (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Boy and the Beast
as Chico (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Boy and the Beast
as Chico (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate
as Tenzing Wangchuk
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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