FrameThrower · Actors · Michiyo Aratama
Michiyo Aratama
4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–1964
Born 15 January 1930 · Nara, Nara, Japan · died 17 March 2001
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Michiyo Aratama was a Japanese actress who appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Hiroshi Inagaki's Chushingura, Kihachi Okamoto's Samurai Assassin and Sword of Doom, and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan, Hymn to a Tired Man and The Human Condition trilogy.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–1964
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress1960
- Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō
How their films are shot
Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michiyo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Michiyo takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 260 frames from Michiyo Aratama's 4 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.