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Akira Kubo

Akira Kubo

4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19571968

Born 1 December 1936 · Tokyo, Japan

Akira Kubo is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in 75 films since 1952. He starred in the film Arashi, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Akira Kubo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

How their films are shot

Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Akira takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 56% natural — the look of the work Akira takes.

Time of day

Day54%
Night26%
Interior18%

Lighting

Natural56%
High key20%
Low key20%

Shot size

Wide41%
Medium33%
Establishing10%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
High angle9%
Low angle8%

Mood

Neutral73%
Tense17%
Ominous6%

Films in the library

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

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 260 frames from Akira Kubo's 4 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.