FrameThrower · Actors · Hou Hsiao-hsien
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 144 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1983–2014
- Order of Brilliant Star2015
- Asia's Most Influential Taiwan2021
- Golden Horse Award for Best Director2015
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2008
- Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize1999
- Golden Horse Award for Best Director1995
- Golden Horse Award for Best Director1989
- National Cultural Award
- Asian Film Award for Best Director
How their films are shot
Measured across 144 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hou 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, 83% of their frames are day, 83% natural — the look of the work Hou 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 144 frames from Hou Hsiao-hsien'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.