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Iko Uwais

Iko Uwais

4 films · 232 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20092018

Born 12 February 1983 · Jakarta, Indonesia

Uwais Qorny, better known as Iko Uwais is an Indonesian actor, stuntman, fight choreographer, and martial artist. He is widely recognized for his roles in action films such as Merantau (2009), The Raid (2011), and The Raid 2 (2014).

Since the age of 10, Iko has been practicing pencak silat, a traditional Indonesian martial art, under the guidance of his grandfather, H. Achmad Bunawar, who was a silat master and founder of a silat school. In 2005, Iko won the national championship in the Silat Demonstration category.

Iko's international career flourished with his role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as Razoo Qin-Fee.

How their films are shot

Measured across 232 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Iko takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 68% of their frames are night, 64% low key — the look of the work Iko takes.

Time of day

Night68%
Day25%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key64%
Natural28%

Shot size

Medium35%
Wide32%
Closeup22%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level79%
Top down8%
Low angle6%
High angle6%

Mood

Tense39%
Neutral32%
Oppressive12%
Ominous9%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 232 frames from Iko Uwais's 4 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.