Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3053
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yui Ogura 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 Ogura appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yui. Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - 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 science fiction, music, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Hiroyuki Hata, Ken Yamamoto, Hiroaki Akagi and others, Yui Ogura 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.
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022) as Hanasato Minori (voice) · Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024) as Manhattan Cafe (voice) · Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) as Sanae Tsukimoto (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3053 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2019–2025
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
Most frequent director
Hiroyuki Hata
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Hiroyuki Hata
Most common genre
Animation
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 6m
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
6.3
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
6.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Pretty Cure Miracle Universe — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.0
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. Pretty Cure Miracle Universe.
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 | — | 7.93 films |
| Action | 6.01 film | 5.32 films |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 8.52 films |
| Romance | — | 7.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Homare Kagayaki / Cure Étoile (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance
2022Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
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.
Career peak
2024Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
The current state of the argument, as Minori Hanasato (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.
10 of 10 films
as Manhattan Cafe (voice)
Directed by Ken Yamamoto
as Hanasato Minori (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Sanae Tsukimoto (voice)
Directed by Hiroaki Akagi
as Minori Hanasato (voice)
Directed by Hiroyuki Hata
as Priestess (voice)
Directed by Takaharu Ozaki
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
Manhattan Cafe (voice)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Manhattan Cafe (voice) gives Yui Ogura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hanasato Minori (voice)
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022)
Performance score8.6
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hanasato Minori (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sanae Tsukimoto (voice)
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022)
Performance score8.3
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sanae Tsukimoto (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Minori Hanasato (voice)
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Performance score7.9
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Minori Hanasato (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 Manhattan Cafe (voice)
Start here. Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era is the clearest statement of what Yui Ogura does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 8.6 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.
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era but asks for a colder reading of it.
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link - — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Yukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Cure Miracle Universe
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of Despair
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Hiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together
Notably Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
Ken Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
Hiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together
Notably COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ken Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New EraHiroaki Akagi
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The MovieHiroyuki Hata
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't SingTakaharu 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 CrownYukio Kaizawa
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty Cure Miracle UniverseKobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 3.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of DespairSix 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
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Hanasato Minori (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
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
as Sanae Tsukimoto (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
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Hanasato Minori (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Hanasato Minori (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Manhattan Cafe (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. Yui Ogura 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
8 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
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Manhattan Cafe (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Hanasato Minori (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Over the Sky
as Madoka (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
as Priestess (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Project SEKAI COLORFUL LIVE 1st - Link -
as Hanasato Minori (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
as Priestess (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Manhattan Cafe (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
as Minori Hanasato (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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