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Masao Matsuda

Masao Matsuda

2 films · 125 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19682002

Born 14 January 1933 · died 17 March 2020

How their films are shot

Measured across 125 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Masao 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, 66% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Masao takes.

Time of day

Day66%
Night22%
Interior10%

Lighting

Natural53%
Low key16%
High key14%
Chiaroscuro14%

Shot size

Medium30%
Closeup26%
Wide22%
Establishing13%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
High angle7%
Low angle6%
Top down4%

Mood

Neutral76%
Tense12%
Lonely6%

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 125 frames from Masao Matsuda'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.