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Yukiko Kobayashi

Yukiko Kobayashi

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19681971

Born 6 October 1946 · Tokyo, Japan

Yukiko Kobayashi (小林夕岐子 Kobayashi Yukiko) is a former Japanese actress. She made her acting debut in Ishiro Honda's Oyome ni Oide in 1966, and went on to appear in two of the director's tokusatsu films for Toho, Destroy All Monsters in 1968 and Space Amoeba in 1970. Kobayashi also played the title role in The Vampire Doll, the first entry in director Michio Yamamoto's Bloodthirsty Trilogy.

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Yukiko 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, 45% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Yukiko takes.

Time of day

Day45%
Night33%
Interior19%

Lighting

Natural46%
Low key30%
High key17%
Chiaroscuro4%

Shot size

Medium38%
Wide29%
Closeup14%
Establishing12%

Camera angle

Eye level77%
High angle14%
Low angle7%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense16%
Lonely7%
Ominous7%

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 Yukiko Kobayashi'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.