FrameThrower · Actors · Leslie Cheung
Leslie Cheung
6 films · 245 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1986–1994
Born 12 September 1956 · Hong Kong, British Crown Colony · died 1 April 2003
Cheung Kwok-Wing was a Hong Kong Canadian singer and actor. Born in Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung moved to the United Kingdom in 1971, settling in Leeds, where he enrolled at university to study fashion design. After completing his studies, he returned to Hong Kong and, in 1977, took part in an amateur singing competition—the ATV Asian Music Contest—where he won second prize. The following year, he released his first album, I Like Dreaming.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 245 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Leslie 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, 70% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Leslie takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
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 245 frames from Leslie Cheung'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.