FrameThrower · Actors · Rinko Kikuchi
Rinko Kikuchi
8 films · 599 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2006–2023
Born 6 January 1981 · Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Rinko Kikuchi, born Yuriko Kikuchi, January 6, 1981, is a Japanese actress. Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She is currently Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee in acting categories. The only other nominee was Miyoshi Umeki, who won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1957 for Sayonara.
How their films are shot
Measured across 599 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rinko takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 51% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Rinko 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 599 frames from Rinko Kikuchi's 8 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.