FrameThrower · Actors · Tamio Kawachi
Tamio Kawachi
3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1965–1966
Born 21 July 1938 · Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan · died 10 February 2018
Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).
How their films are shot
Measured across 194 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tamio takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night — the look of the work Tamio 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 194 frames from Tamio Kawachi's 3 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.