Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2774
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tomoyo Kurosawa 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.
Tomoyo Kurosawa appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tomoyo. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising 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 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 mystery, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tomoaki Koshida, Tadahiro Yoshihira, Taichi Ogawa and others, Tomoyo Kurosawa 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.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) as Mahoro (voice) · Liz and the Blue Bird (2018) as Kumiko Oumae (voice) · Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025) as Amate Yuzuriha (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2774 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Most frequent director
Taichi Ogawa
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Taichi Ogawa
Most common genre
Animation
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow, Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 5 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. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow, Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 6.82 films | 2.75 films |
| Action | 7.81 film | 6.72 films |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 6.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kumiko Oumae (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
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
2026Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-
The current state of the argument, as Selma Therese (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 Mahoro (voice)
Directed by Kenji Nagasaki
as Amate Yuzuriha (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
as Kumiko Oumae (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Asa (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Kumiko Oumae (voice)
Directed by Naoko Yamada
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
Mahoro (voice)
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mahoro (voice) gives Tomoyo Kurosawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Amate Yuzuriha (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025)
Performance score7.5
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amate Yuzuriha (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kumiko Oumae (voice)
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)
Performance score7.4
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kumiko Oumae (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Asa (voice)
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024)
Performance score7.1
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asa (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 Mahoro (voice)
Start here. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising is the clearest statement of what Tomoyo Kurosawa does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tomoyo 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.
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
Keeps the animation register of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Liz and the Blue Bird but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024)
Keeps the animation register of Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together
Notably BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd Stage
Taichi Ogawa
Director
2 films together
Notably Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably Liz and the Blue Bird
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day
Kazuo Sakai
Director
1 film together
Notably Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow
Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Kohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Yoshiaki Kyougoku
Director
1 film together
Notably Laid-Back Camp the Movie
Kiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-
Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-
Tadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together
Notably Unanswered//butterfly
Tomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together
Notably Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd StageTaichi Ogawa
Director
2 films together · 0.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1Kenji Nagasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Hero Academia: Heroes RisingNaoko Yamada
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Liz and the Blue BirdKazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-Yoshiaki Kyougoku
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Laid-Back Camp the MovieTatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New DayTomoaki Koshida
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the SerpentKiyotaka Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of RageTadahiro Yoshihira
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unanswered//butterflyKazuo Sakai
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the RainbowKohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-Six 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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Mahoro (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
Liz and the Blue Bird
as Kumiko Oumae (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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Mahoro (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
as Misaki Okusawa (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Mahoro (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. Tomoyo Kurosawa 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
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Mahoro (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Mahoro (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Chloe (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
as Asa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Mahoro (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
as Mahoro (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day
as Kumiko Oumae (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE
as Michelle (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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