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Cho Jin-woong

Cho Jin-woong

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20162018

Born 3 March 1976 · Busan, South Korea

Cho Jin-woong (조진웅) is a South Korean actor. Born Jo Won-joon on April 3, 1976, he is best known for his roles as Sejong's loyal bodyguard in Deep Rooted Tree (2011), a mobster in Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012), and a mysterious villain in A Hard Day (2014). He also gained recognition and praise for his performance as a detective in the television series Signal (2016).

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cho 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, 56% of their frames are night, 60% low key — the look of the work Cho takes.

Time of day

Night56%
Day34%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key60%
Natural32%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium36%
Wide32%
Closeup21%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle10%

Mood

Neutral51%
Tense27%
Lonely8%
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 Cho Jin-woong'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.