FrameThrower · Actors · Kamatari Fujiwara
Kamatari Fujiwara
6 films · 372 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1952–1962
Born 15 January 1905 · Fukagawa, Koto, Tokyo, Japan · died 21 December 1985
Kamatari Fujiwara was a Japanese actor.
Fujiwara was born in Tokyo, on January 15, 1905, in Tokyo, Japan. Fujiwara's parents ran a printing business. The business did not go well, so at the age of 10, Fujiwara started working at a local confectionery store. By the age of 14 he had started selling timber for building and manufacturing in Shizuoka prefecture. A year later he returned to Tokyo to study as a pharmacist.
Fukiwara worked regularly and extensively with Akira Kurosawa, and was known for both being adept at comic acting, as well as being able to do serious roles.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 372 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1952–1962
- Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th class
How their films are shot
Measured across 372 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kamatari takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 57% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Kamatari 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 372 frames from Kamatari Fujiwara's 6 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.