FrameThrower · Actors · Koichi Yamadera
Koichi Yamadera
9 films · 616 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1989–2025
Born 17 June 1961 · Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan
Koichi Yamadera is a Japanese voice actor and radio personality, known for voicing Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy in the Japanese language releases of their respective films. In 2006, he divorced voice actress Mika Kanai. His most notable characters are Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop (1998) and the subsequent follow up film Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Beerus from the longstanding Dragonball franchise, and the modern day voice of Inspector Zenigata of the longstanding Lupin the Third franchise after the retirement of the previous voice actor Gorō Naya and first appearing in the role in Lupin the Third: Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid (2011)
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 616 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1989–2025
- Seiyu Awards Foreign Film/Drama Award2020
- Kei Tomiyama Award2009
How their films are shot
Measured across 616 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Koichi takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 52% natural — the look of the work Koichi takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
2025 · Batman (voice)
Cowboy Bebop
1998 · Spike Spiegel (voice)
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
2018 · Beerus (voice)
Paprika
2006 · Morio Osanai (voice)
Tokyo Godfathers
2003 · Taxi Driver (voice)
Millenium Actress
2001 · The Man of the Key (voice)
Ghost in the Shell
1995 · Togusa (voice)
Ghost in the Shell
1995 · Togusa (voice)
Kiki’s Delivery Service
1989 · Bakery Worker / Policeman (voice)
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 616 frames from Koichi Yamadera's 9 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.