FrameThrower · Actors · Susumu Fujita
Susumu Fujita
5 films · 300 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1943–1958
Born 8 January 1912 · Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan · died 23 March 1991
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Susumu Fujita was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Akira Kurosawa's first feature, Sanshiro Sugata, and appeared other Kurosawa film including The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (as Togashi, commander of the border guards) and The Hidden Fortress (as General Tadokoro). Later, he was a supporting actor in Ishirō Honda's Mothra vs. Godzilla, among many other films.
Before and during World War II Fujita was considered one of the great stars of Japanese cinema. In the post-war period he became known for supporting roles, often playing a soldier in war films.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 300 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Susumu takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 62% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Susumu 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 300 frames from Susumu Fujita's 5 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.