FrameThrower · Actors · Hideyo Amamoto
Hideyo Amamoto
2 films · 112 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1966–1969
Born 2 January 1926 · Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan · died 23 March 2003
Hideyo Amamoto (天本 英世 Amamoto Hideyo) was a prolific Japanese actor from the Wakamatsu ward of Kitakyūshū best known for portraying Dr. Shinigami in the original Kamen Riderseries as well as many other characters in tokusatsu films and theGodzilla series. Amamoto also used the pseudonym of Eisei Amamoto for most of his career, Eisei being a misreading of the kanji in his real name, Hideyo. He died on March 23, 2003 from acute pneumonia at the age of 77.
How their films are shot
Measured across 112 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hideyo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 74% of their frames are day, 73% natural — the look of the work Hideyo takes.
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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 112 frames from Hideyo Amamoto's 2 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.