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Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

2 films · 125 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19942000

Born 15 December 1954 · Taipei, Taiwan

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling, also known as Elaine Kam, is a Hong Kong–Taiwanese actress. She began her career in Taiwan in 1973 before moving to Hong Kong in 1981. She has been nominated seven times in the Hong Kong Film Awards and won four for her supporting roles in Love Unto Waste, People's Hero , Port of Call and Mad World.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 125 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19942000

  • Hong Kong Film Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 125 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Elaine 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, 43% natural — the look of the work Elaine takes.

Time of day

Night56%
Day35%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural43%
Low key34%
High key18%
Silhouette6%

Shot size

Medium57%
Wide30%
Establishing6%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level94%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral76%
Lonely14%
Tense6%

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 125 frames from Elaine Jin Yan-Ling'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.