FrameThrower · Actors · Kara Wai Ying-Hung
Kara Wai Ying-Hung
4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1987–2013
Born 3 February 1960 · Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Kara Wai Ying-Hung, also romanised as Kara Hui, is a Hong Kong actress of Manchu ethnicity. Known to the international audience for her kung-fu roles in Shaw Brothers Studio films in the 1970s and 1980s, Kara Wai has since portrayed a wide range of roles on screen and on television with much success. In 1982, she became the first recipient of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress. Her portrayal of a mother in the 2009 film At the End of Daybreak won her acting awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, Changchun Film Festival, Pacific Meridian, Asian Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1987–2013
- Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress2014
- Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress2010
- Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress2010
- Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress2009
- Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress1982
How their films are shot
Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kara 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, 70% of their frames are night, 64% low key — the look of the work Kara takes.
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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 260 frames from Kara Wai Ying-Hung'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.