FrameThrower · Actors · Yoshio Harada
Yoshio Harada
4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1974–2008
Born 29 February 1940 · Tokyo, Japan · died 19 July 2011
Yoshio Harada was a Japanese actor. A veteran of over 80 films, he has twice been nominated for the Best Actor Japanese Academy Award. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for Dotsuitarunen and Kiss yori kantan.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1974–2008
- Order of the Rising Sun
- Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role2012
- Medal with Purple Ribbon2003
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor1991
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor1976
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor
How their films are shot
Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Yoshio takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 58% natural — the look of the work Yoshio 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 260 frames from Yoshio Harada's 4 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.