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Masahiro Saito

Masahiro Saito

3 films · 141 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19711974

Born 1 February 1942 · Nakano, Tokyo, Japan · died 14 July 2018

How their films are shot

Measured across 141 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Masahiro 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, 41% of their frames are night, 41% natural — the look of the work Masahiro takes.

Time of day

Night41%
Day40%
Interior6%
Blue hour5%

Lighting

Natural41%
Low key31%
High key13%
Silhouette10%

Shot size

Medium33%
Wide30%
Closeup18%
Fullbody11%

Camera angle

Eye level75%
Low angle11%
High angle11%

Mood

Neutral58%
Ominous14%
Tense14%
Lonely11%

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 141 frames from Masahiro Saito'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.