Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#30257
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Tokuma Nishioka is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tokuma Nishioka appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tokuma. Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for fantasy, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kenichi Kasai, Jun Matsumoto, Teruaki Sugihara and others, Tokuma Nishioka 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.
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! (2018) as Father of Ultra (voice) · To Every You I've Loved Before (2022) as Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (voice) · Call Boy (2018) as Izumikawa
Career snapshot
Ranked #30257 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2018–2022
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Most frequent director
Kenichi Kasai
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kenichi Kasai
Most common genre
Science Fiction
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.1
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First Generation, Call Boy, 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
6.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First Generation, Call Boy, Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 6.01 film |
| Action | 6.42 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Call Boy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Izumikawa.
Highest rated performance
2018Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
6.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
2022To Every You I've Loved Before
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (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.
6 of 6 films
as Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (voice)
Directed by Jun Matsumoto
as Father of Ultra (voice)
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Kiyoshi Kondo
Directed by Unknown
as Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (voice)
Directed by Kenichi Kasai
as Korenosuke Hiden
Directed by Teruaki Sugihara
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
Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (voice)
To Every You I've Loved Before (2022)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (voice) gives Tokuma Nishioka a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Father of Ultra (voice)
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! (2018)
Performance score6.6
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father of Ultra (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kiyoshi Kondo
Green Grass (2022)
Performance score6.5
Green Grass asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kiyoshi Kondo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (voice)
To Me, the One Who Loved You (2022)
Performance score6.5
To Me, the One Who Loved You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (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 Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (voice)
Start here. To Every You I've Loved Before is the clearest statement of what Tokuma Nishioka does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 6.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tokuma 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.
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! (2018)
Keeps the science fiction register of To Every You I've Loved Before but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First Generation (2019)
Keeps the action register of Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Green Grass (2022)
The turn in the path: a film the public underrates and we do not. By this point you will know why.
To Me, the One Who Loved You (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Green Grass — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
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!!
Teruaki Sugihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First Generation
Jun Matsumoto
Director
1 film together
Notably To Every You I've Loved Before
Kenichi Kasai
Director
1 film together
Notably To Me, the One Who Loved You
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
1 film together · 6.6 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!!Jun Matsumoto
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To Every You I've Loved BeforeKenichi Kasai
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To Me, the One Who Loved YouTeruaki Sugihara
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First GenerationSix 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
Call Boy
as Izumikawa
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (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
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
as Father of Ultra (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
as Father of Ultra (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (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. Tokuma Nishioka 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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
Green Grass
as Kiyoshi Kondo
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
as Father of Ultra (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Koyomi Takasaki (old man) (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Green Grass
as Kiyoshi Kondo
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
as Father of Ultra (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First Generation
as Korenosuke Hiden
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Green Grass
as Kiyoshi Kondo
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Green Grass
as Kiyoshi Kondo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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