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Cast Ages at Release — Manual

What it does

For each film, it lists how old every cast member was on the day the film was released, so you can compare the age gaps between co-stars.

How to use it

  1. Open the Cast Ages at Release index.
  2. Filter films with the card tags (genre, and so on).
  3. Open a film card to see that film's cast table.
  4. Click any column header (Character, Actor, Birthdate, Age at release) to sort by that column, toggling ascending/descending. The default order is age at release, descending (oldest first).

Spec

Page structure

URL Contents
/en/data/ages/ Film index (card grid with tag filter)
/en/data/ages/<film-slug>/ One film's cast table

The English and Japanese editions carry different sets of films, each chosen by how well known the films are in that language's market (the same film can appear in both).

How the age is calculated

  • The age is derived from the film's release date (in its country of production) and each cast member's birthdate.
  • The release date is taken from Wikidata's publication date (P577), preferring the value qualified with the country of production. A festival-premiere-only date is not used.
  • A cast member whose birthdate is private, unregistered, or has conflicting registered values shows "Unknown" for age, and the calculation is skipped.
  • Films with fewer than two cast members of known birthdate are not listed.

Table columns

Column Contents
Character The value of Wikidata's character role (P453)
Actor Actor name
Birthdate YYYY-MM-DD; "Unknown" when private
Age at release Age on the release date; "Unknown" when private

Every performer with a P453 (character role) is shown — there is no arbitrary trimming to "main cast only".

Character and actor names come from Wikidata labels; where a label is missing or unsuitable for this language edition, the site supplies its own wording.

Source

  • The data source is Wikidata (licensed CC0). Each page carries a source credit and a link to the relevant entity (QID).
  • Fetched results are cached in the repository so the public build never makes external requests.
  • The retrieval date (when the Wikidata cache was last refreshed) is shown on the index page and on every film page. If a birthdate or release date changes on Wikidata afterwards, the figures here stay put until the cache is refreshed.

Notes

  • Sorting only reorders the rows of the table already on screen — no page reload or network request.