FrameThrower · Actors · Yoshio Tsuchiya
Yoshio Tsuchiya
6 films · 374 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1955–1991
Born 18 May 1927 · Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan · died 8 February 2017
Yoshio Tsuchiya was a Japanese actor known for his frequent appearances in Akira Kurosawa's Samurai films as well as Ishiro Honda's science fiction films.
How their films are shot
Measured across 374 frames from the 6 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 6 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 46% 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.
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 374 frames from Yoshio Tsuchiya's 6 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.