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Kōji Nanbara

Kōji Nanbara

3 films · 220 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19591974

Born 7 June 1927 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · died 20 December 2001

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Kōji Nanbara was a Japanese actor. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He died of a myocardial infarction in Chōfu, Tokyo at age 74.

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Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 220 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19591974

  • Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer1956

How their films are shot

Measured across 220 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kōji 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, 53% of their frames are night — the look of the work Kōji takes.

Time of day

Night53%
Day43%

Lighting

Natural36%
Low key36%
Chiaroscuro21%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium35%
Closeup25%
Wide24%
Fullbody12%

Camera angle

Eye level72%
High angle14%
Low angle12%

Mood

Neutral49%
Tense32%
Lonely8%
Ominous7%

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 220 frames from Kōji Nanbara's 3 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.