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Yōichi Numata

Yōichi Numata

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19601998

Born 19 July 1924 · Okayama, Japan · died 29 April 2006

Yōichi Numata (沼田 曜一 Numata Yōichi) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 27 films between 1949 and 2001.

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Yōichi 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, 72% of their frames are night, 62% low key — the look of the work Yōichi takes.

Time of day

Night72%
Day25%

Lighting

Low key62%
Natural21%
Chiaroscuro9%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide28%
Closeup22%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level63%
High angle22%
Low angle13%

Mood

Neutral50%
Tense24%
Ominous10%
Lonely9%

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 130 frames from Yōichi Numata'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.