Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2126
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yui Ishikawa 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.
Yui Ishikawa appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yui. Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, science fiction, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shukou Murase, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Yuichiro Hayashi and others, Yui Ishikawa 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.
Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert (2021) as Self · Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024) as Mikasa Ackerman (voice) · A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016) as Miyoko Sahara (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2126 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert
Most frequent director
Shukou Murase
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Shukou Murase
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
2020s
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, Kimi dake ni Motetainda., Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 6.83 films | 8.04 films |
| Action | 5.51 film | 7.43 films |
| Comedy | 5.02 films | 5.41 film |
| Romance | 6.42 films | 7.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Miyoko Sahara (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert
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.
Most recent film
2026MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
The current state of the argument, as Emeralda Zubin (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 Mikasa Ackerman (voice)
Directed by Yuichiro Hayashi
as Miyoko Sahara (voice)
Directed by Naoko Yamada
as Nyaan (voice)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
as Violet Evergarden (voice)
Directed by Taichi Ishidate
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
Self
Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert (2021)
Performance score9.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Yui Ishikawa a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mikasa Ackerman (voice)
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Performance score8.8
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mikasa Ackerman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miyoko Sahara (voice)
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
Performance score8.3
A Silent Voice: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miyoko Sahara (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nyaan (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025)
Performance score8.2
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nyaan (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 Self
Start here. Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert is the clearest statement of what Yui Ishikawa does — accessible, 139 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yui 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.
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the romance register of A Silent Voice: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Violet Evergarden: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (2025)
Keeps the action register of Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Naoko Yamada
Director
1 film together
Notably A Silent Voice: The Movie
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
Shun Kudo
Director
1 film together
Notably Kimi dake ni Motetainda.
Haruka Fujita
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-
Shukou Murase
Director
1 film together
Notably MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yuichiro Hayashi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACKNaoko Yamada
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Silent Voice: The MovieKazuya Tsurumaki
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-Taichi Ishidate
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: The MovieHaruka Fujita
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory DollShukou Murase
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph CirceYuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of StarsJunji Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!Shun Kudo
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kimi dake ni Motetainda.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
Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Miyoko Sahara (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
Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A Silent Voice: The Movie
as Miyoko Sahara (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert
as Self
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. Yui Ishikawa 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
10 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
Violet Evergarden Orchestra Concert
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Mikasa Ackerman (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
as Violet Evergarden (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
as Violet Evergarden (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Mikasa Ackerman (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK
as Mikasa Ackerman (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
as Hydro (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!
as Minori Ichinose / Cure Papaya (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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