FrameThrower · Actors · Akihiko Hirata
Akihiko Hirata
8 films · 494 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1954–1995
Born 26 December 1927 · 日本, 東京都 · died 25 July 1984
Akihiko Hirata was a Japanese film actor. While Hirata starred in many movies (including Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy), he is most well known for his work in the kaiju genre, including such films as King Kong vs. Godzilla, The Mysterians, and his most famous role of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, the brilliant but disturbed young scientist in the original Godzilla, released in 1954. Hirata died after a long battle with lung cancer in 1984, at age 56.
How their films are shot
Measured across 494 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Akihiko takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Akihiko takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Terror of Mechagodzilla
1975 · Dr. Shinzô Mafune
Ebirah Horror of the Deep
1966 · Red Bamboo Captain Ryui
Godzilla (1954)
1954 · Daisuke Serizawa
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
1995 · Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage)
Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla
1974 · Professor Hideto Miyajima
Son of Godzilla
1967 · Fujisaki
Ghidorah The Three Headed Monster
1964 · Chief Detective Okita
King Kong Vs. Godzilla
1962 · Dr. Shigezawa
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 494 frames from Akihiko Hirata's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.