Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5195
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Takaya Kuroda works on drama 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.
Takaya Kuroda appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Takaya. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are drama, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sunghoo Park, Hideki Ito, Kobun Shizuno and others, Takaya Kuroda 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.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) as Masamichi Yaga (voice) · The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky (2018) as Aterra (voice) · Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017) as Capricorn (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5195 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2017–2021
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Most frequent director
Sunghoo Park
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Sunghoo Park
Most common genre
Fantasy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor, The Journey — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry.
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 | — | 6.51 film |
| Action | 6.92 films | 7.22 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Capricorn (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Jujutsu Kaisen 0
7.8 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
2021The Journey
The current state of the argument, as Abraha (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.
5 of 5 films
as Masamichi Yaga (voice)
Directed by Sunghoo Park
as Aterra (voice)
Directed by Yasuto Nishikata
as Misuzu (voice)
Directed by Hideki Ito
as Abraha (voice)
Directed by Kobun Shizuno
as Capricorn (voice)
Directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa
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
Masamichi Yaga (voice)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Masamichi Yaga (voice) gives Takaya Kuroda a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Aterra (voice)
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky (2018)
Performance score7.1
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aterra (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Misuzu (voice)
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor (2021)
Performance score6.7
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Misuzu (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Abraha (voice)
The Journey (2021)
Performance score6.7
The Journey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abraha (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 Masamichi Yaga (voice)
Start here. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is the clearest statement of what Takaya Kuroda does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Takaya 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.
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017)
Keeps the action register of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky (2018)
Keeps the action register of Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor (2021)
Keeps the fantasy register of The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Journey (2021)
Keeps the fantasy register of Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Yasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably The Journey
Hideki Ito
Director
1 film together
Notably Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sunghoo 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 0Yasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the SkyTatsuma Minamikawa
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fairy Tail: Dragon CryHideki Ito
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange VisitorKobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JourneySix 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
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Masamichi Yaga (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
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor
as Misuzu (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
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Masamichi Yaga (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Capricorn (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Masamichi Yaga (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. Takaya Kuroda 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.
Fantasy Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in fantasy, 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
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Masamichi Yaga (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Masamichi Yaga (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor
as Misuzu (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor
as Misuzu (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Masamichi Yaga (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
as Aterra (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Capricorn (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Capricorn (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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