Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2038
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yuhko Kaida 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.
Yuhko Kaida appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yuhko. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Naoya Ando, Tatsuya Yoshihara, Takashi Katagiri and others, Yuhko Kaida 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.
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- (2026) as Tomiko Tsuguta (voice) · Gintama: The Very Final (2021) as Tsukuyo (voice) · Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) as Fox Devil (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2038 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
Average Nutevio score
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
Most frequent director
Naoya Ando
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Naoya Ando
Most common genre
Animation
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 11m
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
6.8
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
7.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, When Marnie Was There — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.7
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. Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, When Marnie Was There.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 7.71 film | 6.73 films |
| Action | — | 7.46 films |
| Comedy | 7.41 film | 6.82 films |
| Romance | 7.41 film | 8.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Marnie's Mother (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Tomiko Tsuguta (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.
11 of 11 films
as Tomiko Tsuguta (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Tsukuyo (voice)
Directed by Naoya Ando
as Tsukuyo (voice)
Directed by Chizuru Miyawaki
as Fox Devil (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara
as Xeggdrasil (voice)
Directed by Kyouhei Yamaguchi
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
Tomiko Tsuguta (voice)
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- (2026)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tomiko Tsuguta (voice) gives Yuhko Kaida a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tsukuyo (voice)
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Performance score8.0
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tsukuyo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tsukuyo (voice)
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Performance score7.9
Gintama: The Very Final asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tsukuyo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fox Devil (voice)
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)
Performance score7.8
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fox Devil (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 Tomiko Tsuguta (voice)
Start here. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- is the clearest statement of what Yuhko Kaida does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yuhko 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.
Gintama: The Very Final (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation (2023)
Keeps the action register of Gintama: The Very Final but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)
Keeps the action register of Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames (2026)
Keeps the action register of Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably When Marnie Was There
Masaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Chizuru Miyawaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama: The Very Final
Shinya Watada
Director
1 film together
Notably Hula Fulla Dance
Kyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together
Notably Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation
Masayoshi Takesue
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to Beyond
Takashi Katagiri
Director
1 film together
Notably SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Tatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
Naoya Ando
Director
1 film together
Notably Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chizuru 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 FinalTatsuya Yoshihara
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze ArcNaoya Ando
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in FlamesKyouhei Yamaguchi
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When Marnie Was ThereMasaaki Yuasa
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night Is Short, Walk On GirlTakashi 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: WhiteShinya Watada
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hula Fulla DanceMasayoshi Takesue
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to BeyondSix 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
Gintama: The Very Final
as Tsukuyo (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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Tomiko Tsuguta (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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Tomiko Tsuguta (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Gintama: The Very Final
as Tsukuyo (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Tomiko Tsuguta (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. Yuhko Kaida 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
9 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
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Tomiko Tsuguta (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gintama: The Very Final
as Tsukuyo (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 Tomiko Tsuguta (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 Awashima (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation
as Xeggdrasil (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
as Sylvia Sherwood (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
as Hanuki (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain
as Awashima (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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