FrameThrower · Actors · Song Kang-ho
Song Kang-ho
8 films · 508 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1996–2023
Born 17 January 1967 · Gimhae, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
Song Kang-ho is a South Korean actor. Regarded as one of the most influential actors in Korean cinema, he has appeared in critically acclaimed films across various genres. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award, three Baeksang Arts Awards, four Blue Dragon Film Awards, and five Grand Bell Awards. In 2020, The New York Times named him one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
Song first gained recognition with the crime thriller No. 3 (1997), and later rose to prominence with Park Chan-wook's critically acclaimed film Joint Security Area (2000).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 508 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1996–2023
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor
- Order of Cultural Merit
- Asian Film Award for Best Actor2007
- Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actor
- Grand Bell Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 508 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Song takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 43% low key — the look of the work Song takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Cobweb (거미집)
2023 · Director Kim
Parasite
2019 · Kim Ki-taek
Snowpiercer
2013 · Namgoong Minsu
The Good The Bad The Weird
2008 · Yoon Tae-goo
Memories of Murder
2003 · Detective Park Doo-man
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · Dong-jin
Joint Security Area
2000 · Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1996 · Dong-suk
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 508 frames from Song Kang-ho's 8 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.