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John Cho

John Cho

8 films · 579 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20072024

Born 16 June 1972 · Seoul, South Korea

John Cho is a Korean American actor best known as playing Harold in the Harold and Kumar film series, as well as playing helmsman Hikaru Sulu in 2009's Star Trek.

How their films are shot

Measured across 579 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work John takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 8 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work John takes.

Time of day

Night49%
Day36%
Interior11%

Lighting

Low key50%
Natural34%
High key14%

Shot size

Medium44%
Closeup26%
Wide20%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
High angle9%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense23%
Lonely8%
Ominous6%

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 579 frames from John Cho's 8 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.