FrameThrower · Actors · Sachio Sakai
Sachio Sakai
2 films · 123 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1954–1969
Born 8 September 1925 · Tokyo, Japan · died 11 March 1998
Sachio Sakai, real name Yukio Abe (阿部 幸男, Abe Yukio), was a Japanese actor. Sakai was the son of an electrician and later graduated from Tokyo City Asakusa Technical College. In 1946, Sakai entered and passed the first Toho New Face program and had his first film appearance under the studio in 1947 in Akira Kurosawa's "One Wonderful Sunday". Sakai would go on to appear in numerous films by the studio, including many directed by Kurosawa, Kihachi Okamoto, and Ishiro Honda.
How their films are shot
Measured across 123 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sachio 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, 65% of their frames are day, 54% natural — the look of the work Sachio takes.
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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 123 frames from Sachio Sakai'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.