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Lee Byung-hun

Lee Byung-hun

6 films · 410 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20002021

Born 12 July 1970 · Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Lee Byung-hun is a South Korean actor, singer and model. He has received acclaim for his work in a wide range of genres, most notably Joint Security Area (2000); A Bittersweet Life (2005); The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008); I Saw the Devil (2010); Masquerade (2012); Inside Men (2015); The Man Standing Next (2020); and the television series All In (2003), Iris (2009), Mr. Sunshine (2018), and Our Blues (2022). He has received multiple awards and nominations throughout his career.

In the United States, he is known for portraying Storm Shadow in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and its sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 410 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20002021

  • Grand Bell Awards
  • Asian Film Award for Best Actor
  • Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actor

How their films are shot

Measured across 410 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lee takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 6 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Lee takes.

Time of day

Night49%
Day35%
Interior10%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Low key44%
Natural35%
High key14%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium35%
Wide32%
Closeup22%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level73%
Low angle12%
High angle11%

Mood

Neutral39%
Tense36%
Ominous10%
Lonely7%

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 410 frames from Lee Byung-hun's 6 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.