Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1614
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yumi Uchiyama works on quiet performance 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.
Yumi Uchiyama appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yumi. 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 quiet performance, emotional range, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, animation, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Minoru Ashina, Munenori Nawa, Hiroyuki Hashimoto and others, Yumi Uchiyama 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 Maria (voice) · Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022) as Mare Bello Fiore / Puck (voice) · Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond (2019) as Puck (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1614 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2018–2026
Career length
8 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
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
Most frequent director
Minoru Ashina
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Minoru Ashina
Most common genre
Animation
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 5m
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
6.6
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
7.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-, Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World, Kinmoza the Movie: Thank You!! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.5
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. Laidbackers, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 7.41 film | 9.01 film |
| Comedy | 5.51 film | 6.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Puck (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 Maria (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.
6 of 6 films
as Maria (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Mare Bello Fiore / Puck (voice)
Directed by Minoru Ashina
as Puck (voice)
Directed by Kenichi Kawamura
as Puck (voice)
Directed by Masaharu Watanabe
as Yoko Inokuma (voice)
Directed by Munenori Nawa
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
Maria (voice)
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- (2026)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Maria (voice) gives Yumi Uchiyama a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mare Bello Fiore / Puck (voice)
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022)
Performance score7.7
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mare Bello Fiore / Puck (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Puck (voice)
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond (2019)
Performance score7.7
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Puck (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Puck (voice)
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow (2018)
Performance score7.4
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Puck (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 Maria (voice)
Start here. Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- is the clearest statement of what Yumi Uchiyama 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 Yumi 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.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow (2018)
Keeps the animation register of Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur- but asks for a colder reading of it.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kinmoza the Movie: Thank You!! (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond but asks for a colder reading of it.
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Kinmoza the Movie: Thank You!! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Masaharu Watanabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow
Kenichi Kawamura
Director
1 film together
Notably Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond
Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Laidbackers
Munenori Nawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Kinmoza the Movie: Thank You!!
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Minoru 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 WorldKenichi Kawamura
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen BondMasaharu Watanabe
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory SnowMunenori Nawa
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kinmoza the Movie: Thank You!!Hiroyuki Hashimoto
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LaidbackersSix 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
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
as Mare Bello Fiore / Puck (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 Maria (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 Maria (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Maria (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 Maria (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. Yumi Uchiyama 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
6 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 Maria (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Maria (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 Maria (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow
as Puck (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Maria (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow
as Puck (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Maria (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-
as Maria (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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