FrameThrower · Actors · Denjirō Ōkōchi
Denjirō Ōkōchi
4 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1943–1946
Born 5 February 1898 · Buzen, Fukuoka, Japan · died 19 July 1962
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Denjirō Ōkōchi was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in jidaigeki directed by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Daisuke Itō, Sadao Yamanaka, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Hiroshi Inagaki and Masahiro Makino. His real name was Masuo Ōbe. Training in Shinkokugeki under Shōjirō Sawada, Ōkōchi entered Nikkatsu in 1925 and soon came to fame in chanbara films playing characters such as Chūji Kunisada and Sazen Tange. At his peak, he was one of the top jidaigeki stars alongside Tsumasaburō Bandō and Chiezō Kataoka. During World War II, he also appeared in a number of war films.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 235 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Denjirō 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, 58% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Denjirō 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.
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 235 frames from Denjirō Ōkōchi'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.