FrameThrower · Actors · Isuzu Yamada
Isuzu Yamada
3 films · 180 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1957–1961
Born 5 February 1917 · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · died 9 July 2012
Isuzu Yamada was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades.
Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada, a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles, and Ritsu, a geisha. Yamada debuted as a film actress in 1930 at age twelve, appearing in the Nikkatsu film Tsurugi wo koete. She soon became one of Nikkatsu's top actresses, but it was her portrayals of strong-willed modern girls in Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion in 1936 at the new Daiichi Eiga studio that earned her popularity and critical acclaim.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 180 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1957–1961
- Order of Culture2000
- Person of Cultural Merit1993
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress1957
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress1956
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress1953
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress
- Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō
How their films are shot
Measured across 180 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Isuzu 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, 58% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Isuzu 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
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