FrameThrower · Actors · Yoshio Inaba
Yoshio Inaba
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1954–1962
Born 15 July 1920 · Narita, Chiba, Japan · died 20 April 1998
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Yoshio Inaba was a Japanese actor best known for his role as one of the title characters (the good-natured, second-in-command Gorobei) in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 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 2 films we hold, 69% of their frames are day, 51% 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 130 frames from Yoshio Inaba'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.