Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#310
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Toshiyuki Morikawa 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.
Toshiyuki Morikawa appears in 37 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Toshiyuki. Ultraman Regulos: First Mission 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, adventure, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Masaki Watanabe, Haruo Sotozaki, Masakazu Hashimoto and others, Toshiyuki Morikawa 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 Regulos: First Mission (2022) as Ultraman Powered (voice) · Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021) as Ultraman Powered · Gintama: The Very Final (2021) as Zenzou Hattori (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #310 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
37
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Most frequent director
Koichi Sakamoto
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Koichi Sakamoto
Most common genre
Animation
32 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
6.7
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Gundam Reconguista in G Movie I: Go! Core Fighter, Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight, My Tyrano: Together, Forever — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Gundam Reconguista in G Movie I: Go! Core Fighter, Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight, My Tyrano: Together, Forever.
Most productive era
2020s
28 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 | 5.91 film | 7.28 films |
| Action | 6.95 films | 7.615 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | 5.47 films |
| Crime | — | 7.02 films |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 5.94 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Isora (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance
2021Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
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.
Career peak
2022Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Very Bizarre! My Yokai Vacation
The current state of the argument, as Hiroshi Nohara (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.
37 of 37 films
as Ultraman Powered (voice)
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Ultraman Powered
Directed by Koichi Sakamoto
as Zenzou Hattori (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
as Kagaya Ubuyashiki (voice)
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki
as Bondrewd (voice)
Directed by Masayuki Kojima
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Ultraman Powered (voice)
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission (2022)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ultraman Powered (voice) gives Toshiyuki Morikawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Ultraman Powered
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Performance score9.5
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ultraman Powered is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Zenzou Hattori (voice)
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Performance score7.9
Gintama: The Very Final asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zenzou Hattori (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kagaya Ubuyashiki (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. Kagaya Ubuyashiki (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Ultraman Powered (voice)
Start here. Ultraman Regulos: First Mission is the clearest statement of what Toshiyuki Morikawa does — accessible, 25 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Toshiyuki 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.
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019)
Keeps the science fiction register of Ultraman Regulos: First Mission but asks for a colder reading of it.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2021)
Keeps the action register of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Keeps the action register of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together
Notably Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
Masayuki Kojima
Director
2 films together
Notably Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Masakazu Hashimoto
Director
2 films together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja Mononoke
Haruo Sotozaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Shinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Yasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
Jumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Ninja
Konosuke Uda
Director
1 film together
Notably One Piece: Episode of Skypiea
Yutaka Uemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably My Tyrano: Together, Forever
Shunichi Yoshizawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Gundam Reconguista in G Movie I: Go! Core Fighter
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together
Notably Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Takayuki Shibasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together
Notably Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!
Atsushi Mimura
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia I: Promise
Hisatoshi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Daiji Suzuki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Chika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
Mamoru Hosoda
Director
1 film together
Notably Belle
Shinji Higuchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbirds 55/GOGO
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Hitoshi One
Director
1 film together
Notably New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~
Ayataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Shinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary
Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Look Back
Toshiya Shinohara
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
Masaki Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Very Bizarre! My Yokai Vacation
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Koichi Sakamoto
Director
3 films together · 9.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ultraman Regulos: First MissionHaruo Sotozaki
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
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen TrainMasayuki Kojima
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Made in Abyss: Wandering TwilightMasakazu Hashimoto
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
Crayon Shin-chan: The Tornado Legend of Ninja MononokeChizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama: The Very FinalYutaka Uemura
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The MovieToshiya Shinohara
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Look BackMinoru Ashina
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another WorldMamoru 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
BelleDaiji Suzuki
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu AcademyNaoyoshi Shiotani
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Psycho-Pass 3: First InspectorAyataka Tanemura
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingYasuto Nishikata
Director
1 film together · 7.5 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 SkyTakaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's CrownTakayuki Shibasaki
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kamen Rider: Beyond GenerationsKonosuke Uda
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Piece: Episode of SkypieaHitoshi One
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Shoji Kawamori
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!Shunichi Yoshizawa
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gundam Reconguista in G Movie I: Go! Core FighterHisatoshi 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-EvolutionShinji Aramaki
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space Pirate Captain HarlockChika Nagaoka
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: The Scarlet BulletKobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Tyrano: Together, ForeverJumpei Mizusaki
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman NinjaShinobu Sasaki
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur DiaryAtsushi Mimura
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia I: PromiseMasaki Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Very Bizarre! My Yokai VacationShinji 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Powered
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
as The Cheshire Cat (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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Powered
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Powered
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Ultraman Powered (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. Toshiyuki Morikawa 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
32 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
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Powered
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy
as Ultraman Powered
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–
as The Cheshire Cat (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
as Bondrewd (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ultraman Regulos: First Mission
as Ultraman Powered (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger
as Wise God Torin / Kyoryu Silver (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
New Dimension! Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Battle of Supernatural Powers ~Flying Sushi~
as Hiroshi Nohara (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
as Shukichi Haneda (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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