FrameThrower · Actors · Kei Satō
Kei Satō
6 films · 377 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1959–1999
Born 21 December 1928 · Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan · died 2 May 2010
Kei Satō was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima, and for several films with Kaneto Shindo, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He won the best actor award from Kinema Junpo for the films The Ceremony and Nihon no akuryō. He also worked as a narrator for many documentaries, both on television and film.
How their films are shot
Measured across 377 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kei 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, 48% of their frames are day — the look of the work Kei 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 377 frames from Kei Satō'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.