FrameThrower · Actors · Cheng Pei-Pei
Cheng Pei-Pei
3 films · 118 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2000–2020
Born 4 December 1946 · Shanghai, China · died 17 July 2024
Cheng Pei-pei was an actress best known for her performance in the seminal 1966 King Hu wuxia film Come Drink with Me. It made her a contender for one of the first female action star. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s. In 2000, she returned to international attention with her role as Jade Fox in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. She followed this up with her portrayal of Long Po in the 2004 television miniseries Watery Moon, Hollow Sky, which was shown on Asian-American television as Paradise. She worked for Zhouyi Media in mainland China.
How their films are shot
Measured across 118 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cheng takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Cheng 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 118 frames from Cheng Pei-Pei's 3 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.