FrameThrower · Actors · Keiju Kobayashi
Keiju Kobayashi
2 films · 127 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1962–1984
Born 23 November 1923 · Gunma, Japan · died 16 September 2010
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Keiju Kobayashi was a Japanese actor. Born in Gunma Prefecture, he began acting at the Nikkatsu studio after dropping out of Nihon University and made his film debut in 1942. In a career that spanned 65 years, he appeared in over 250 films, most famously in the "Company President" (Shachō) comedy films made at Toho, where he worked alongside Hisaya Morishige, Daisuke Kato, Norihei Miki, and others. There he helped define the popular image of the postwar salaryman.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 127 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1962–1984
- Medal with Purple Ribbon1985
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor1965
How their films are shot
Measured across 127 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Keiju 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, 48% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Keiju 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 127 frames from Keiju Kobayashi'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.