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Maaya Sakamoto

Maaya Sakamoto

3 films · 358 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20132015

Born 31 March 1980 · Tokyo, Japan

Maaya Sakamoto is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in Little Twins, but is better known as voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne. Other major roles in anime include Riho Yamazaki in Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective, Moe Katsuragi in Risky Safety, Princess Tomoyo in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Haruhi Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Sayaka Nakasugi in Birdy the Mighty, Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler, Shinobu Oshino in Monogatari, Shiki Ryougi in the Kara no Kyoukai film series, and Motoko Kusanagi in the newer Ghost in the Shell films and series.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 358 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20132015

  • Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō

How their films are shot

Measured across 358 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Maaya 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, 41% low key — the look of the work Maaya takes.

Time of day

Night53%
Day25%
Interior18%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Low key41%
Natural39%
High key19%

Shot size

Medium49%
Closeup19%
Wide19%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level77%
High angle14%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral50%
Tense22%
Ominous9%
Mysterious8%

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 358 frames from Maaya Sakamoto'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.