FrameThrower · Actors · Tsutomu Yamazaki
Tsutomu Yamazaki
3 films · 178 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1965–1985
Born 2 December 1936 · Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努 Yamazaki Tsutomu) (born December 2, 1936 in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor.
He has been nominated for seven Japanese Academy Awards, winning Best Actor awards for the Juzo Itami comedies The Funeral and A Taxing Woman, and the Best Supporting Actor awards for Go and Departures. He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 178 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1965–1985
- The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette2007
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor2002
- Medal with Purple Ribbon2000
- Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role1988
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor1985
- Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role1985
- Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year1961
How their films are shot
Measured across 178 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tsutomu 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, 49% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Tsutomu 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 178 frames from Tsutomu Yamazaki'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.