FrameThrower · Actors · Yoji Matsuda
Yoji Matsuda
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–1997
Born 19 October 1967 · Tokyo, Japan
Yoji Matsuda is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.
He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His older brother is Naoyuki Matsuda, a musical translator and professor at Komazawa University. After studying at Aoyama Gakuin High School, he dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University's Faculty of Letters and Department of Education. Among his classmates is a member of the Diet and the House of Councilors Renhō (his classmate from high school to university). He joined the Himawari Theatre Group at age five and made his child debut in the TV drama Mother's Suzu in 1974.
He gained attention as an actor in the 1983 TBS television drama Family Game (as Shigeyuki Numata).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Yoji 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, 49% of their frames are day, 68% natural — the look of the work Yoji takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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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 130 frames from Yoji Matsuda'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.