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Lee Jung-jae

Lee Jung-jae

4 films · 486 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20102021

Born 15 December 1972 · Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on December 15, 1972, he began modelling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man (1994) and the TV series Feelings (1994) and Sandglass (1995), which is one of the highest rated Korean dramas of all time with a peak rating of 64.5%. But his real breakthrough was with leading roles in award-winning films The Affair (1998) and City of the Rising Sun (1999).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 486 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20102021

  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series2022
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series2022
  • Order of Cultural Merit, 1st class2022
  • Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series2022
  • Baeksang Arts Award for Best Supporting Actor – Film2014
  • Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Supporting Actor2013
  • Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actor1999
  • Blue Dragon Film Award for Best New Actor1995
  • Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actor – Television1995

How their films are shot

Measured across 486 frames from the 4 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 4 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Lee takes.

Time of day

Night47%
Day38%
Interior9%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Low key47%
Natural39%
High key14%

Shot size

Medium48%
Wide25%
Closeup15%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level75%
High angle13%
Low angle9%

Mood

Neutral36%
Tense27%
Lonely14%
Ominous10%

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 486 frames from Lee Jung-jae'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.