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Show Aikawa

Show Aikawa

2 films · 113 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20032012

Born 24 May 1961 · Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Show Aikawa is a Japanese actor. He's starred in a variety of films ranging from V-Cinema productions to mainstream ventures. In the course of his career, he's collaborated extensively with a number of directors such as Banmei Takahashi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Takashi Miike.

How their films are shot

Measured across 113 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Show 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, 52% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Show takes.

Time of day

Night52%
Day27%
Interior18%

Lighting

Low key42%
High key29%
Natural23%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium42%
Closeup26%
Wide20%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level76%
High angle14%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral58%
Tense24%
Lonely11%

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 113 frames from Show Aikawa'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.