Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1043
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Takuya Eguchi 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.
Takuya Eguchi appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Takuya. How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yasuhito Kikuchi, Ai Yoshimura, Toshiki Hirano and others, Takuya Eguchi 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.
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020) as Ken Shibasaki (voice) · Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) as (voice) · given the Movie: To the Sea (2024) as Akihiko Kaji (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1043 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Most frequent director
Yasuhito Kikuchi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Yasuhito Kikuchi
Most common genre
Animation
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 21m
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
6.4
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
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea, The Rose of Versailles, Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. For Whom the Alchemist Exists, The Island of Giant Insects.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | — | 6.45 films |
| Action | — | 7.54 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.92 films |
| Romance | — | 7.35 films |
| Horror | 4.21 film | 4.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Othima (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
The current state of the argument, as Soei (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.
18 of 18 films
as Ken Shibasaki (voice)
Directed by Fumie Muroi
as Akihiko Kaji (voice)
Directed by Hikaru Yamaguchi
as Akihiko Kaji (voice)
Directed by Noriko Hashimoto
as (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Loid Forger (voice)
Directed by Takashi Katagiri
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
Ken Shibasaki (voice)
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film (2020)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ken Shibasaki (voice) gives Takuya Eguchi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Akihiko Kaji (voice)
Given (2020)
Performance score8.1
Given asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Akihiko Kaji (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Akihiko Kaji (voice)
given the Movie: To the Sea (2024)
Performance score7.9
given the Movie: To the Sea asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Akihiko Kaji (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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(voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Performance score7.9
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (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 Ken Shibasaki (voice)
Start here. How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film is the clearest statement of what Takuya Eguchi does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Takuya 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)
Keeps the music register of How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Given but asks for a colder reading of it.
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White (2023)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
given the Movie: To the Sea (2024)
Keeps the animation register of SPY x FAMILY CODE: White but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Noriko Hashimoto
Director
2 films together
Notably given the Movie: To the Sea
Yasuhito Kikuchi
Director
2 films together
Notably That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond
Takeo Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island of Giant Insects
Masanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together
Notably For Whom the Alchemist Exists
Fumie Muroi
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island of Giant Insects
Hikaru Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Given
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Shinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbirds 55/GOGO
Kensuke Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiOD
Naoko Takeichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Mask Danshi wa Koishitakunai noni
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together
Notably Fureru
Toshiki Hirano
Director
1 film together
Notably Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura
Ai Yoshimura
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rose of Versailles
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Noriko Hashimoto
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
given the Movie: To the SeaYasuhito Kikuchi
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet BondFumie Muroi
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story FilmHaruo Sotozaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainToshiki Hirano
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Baki Hanma VS Kengan AshuraHikaru 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
GivenNaoko Takeichi
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mask Danshi wa Koishitakunai noniTakashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SPY x FAMILY CODE: WhiteAi Yoshimura
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rose of VersaillesKensuke Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IDOLiSH7 Movie: LIVE 4bit - BEYOND THE PERiODTatsuyuki Nagai
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FureruMasanori Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Whom the Alchemist ExistsNaoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Island of Giant InsectsTakeo Takahashi
Director
1 film together · 4.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Island of Giant InsectsShinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbirds 55/GOGOSix 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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Ken Shibasaki (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Ken Shibasaki (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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Ken Shibasaki (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Ken Shibasaki (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. Takuya Eguchi 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
17 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
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Ken Shibasaki (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Ken Shibasaki (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Rose of Versailles
as Florian de Gerodelle (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Island of Giant Insects
as Kazuhiko Kai (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
How to Enjoy This World: Secret Story Film
as Ken Shibasaki (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
as Loid Forger (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
as Soei (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
as Oscar Dublin (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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