FrameThrower · Actors · Hidetoshi Nishijima
Hidetoshi Nishijima
5 films · 326 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2013–2023
Born 29 March 1971 · Tokyo, Japan
Hidetoshi Nishijima is a Japanese actor. He is widely regarded as one of Japan's leading actors in numerous films and television drama series. He has appeared in a wide range of films from epic science fiction films such as Shin Ultraman (2022) to small-scale art films such as Dolls (2002). He is best known internationally for his leading role in the film Drive My Car (2021). He received the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor for the film.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 326 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2013–2023
- Yokohama Film Festival2008
- Japanese Professional Movie Awards2005
- Japanese Professional Movie Awards1999
How their films are shot
Measured across 326 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hidetoshi takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 65% of their frames are day, 62% natural — the look of the work Hidetoshi 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 326 frames from Hidetoshi Nishijima's 5 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.