FrameThrower · Actors · Showtaro Morikubo
Showtaro Morikubo
2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2017
Born 25 February 1974 · Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
Showtaro Morikubo is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer who has voiced characters in anime, drama CDs, and video games. He was formerly affiliated with I'm Enterprise and VIMS. His most notable roles were Shikamaru Nara from Naruto, X in the Mega Man X series and Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2017
- Seiyu Awards Personality Award2020
- Kei Tomiyama Award2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 124 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Showtaro 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, 59% of their frames are day, 60% natural — the look of the work Showtaro 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 124 frames from Showtaro Morikubo'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.