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Akihiro Miwa

Akihiro Miwa

3 films · 206 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19712004

Born 15 May 1935 · Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan · died 20 June 2026

Akihiro Maruyama, better known by his stage name Akihiro Miwa, was a Japanese singer, actor, author and drag queen. As an actor he is known for voicing characters in Hayao Miyazaki films Princess Mononoke (1997) and Howl's Moving Castle (2004).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 206 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19712004

  • Golden Arrow Award

How their films are shot

Measured across 206 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Akihiro takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 62% natural — the look of the work Akihiro takes.

Time of day

Day50%
Night38%
Interior7%
Dusk5%

Lighting

Natural62%
Low key27%
High key6%

Shot size

Wide39%
Medium32%
Fullbody13%
Closeup10%

Camera angle

Eye level75%
High angle13%
Low angle10%

Mood

Neutral60%
Tense17%
Ominous11%
Lonely8%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 206 frames from Akihiro Miwa's 3 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.