FrameThrower · Actors · Nobuo Kaneko
Nobuo Kaneko
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1952–1984
Born 27 March 1923 · Taito, Tokyo, Japan · died 20 January 1995
Nobuo Kaneko was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. He was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses.
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Nobuo 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, 62% of their frames are night, 56% low key — the look of the work Nobuo takes.
Time of day
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Mood
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 130 frames from Nobuo Kaneko'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.