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Lee Sun-kyun

Lee Sun-kyun

3 films · 137 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20102019

Born 2 March 1975 · 韩国,首尔 · died 27 December 2023

Lee Sun-kyun was a South Korean actor. He was best known for his roles in the films, Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). He was also known for his role in the Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning black comedy film Parasite for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his castmates. He received several other awards including nomination for an International Emmy Award.

After beginning his career in musical theatre, for many years Lee was relegated to minor and supporting roles onscreen, only getting to play lead characters in one-act dramas on KBS Drama City and MBC Best Theater.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 137 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20102019

  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2020
  • Baeksang Arts Awards2015
  • MBC Drama Awards2010
  • KBS Drama Awards2010
  • MBC Drama Awards2007

How their films are shot

Measured across 137 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 63% of their frames are day, 60% natural — the look of the work Lee takes.

Time of day

Day63%
Night32%

Lighting

Natural60%
Low key28%
High key10%

Shot size

Medium55%
Wide20%
Fullbody14%
Closeup9%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle7%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense14%
Lonely9%
Ominous5%

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 137 frames from Lee Sun-kyun's 3 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.