FrameThrower · Actors · Tony Leung Ka-fai
Tony Leung Ka-fai
3 films · 304 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1994–2025
Born 1 February 1958 · Hong Kong, China
Tony Leung Ka-Fai is a five-time Hong Kong Film Award-winning Chinese film actor from each decades since the 1980s
Because he is often confused with actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tony Leung Ka-Fai is known as "Big Tony", while Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is known as "Little Tony", nicknames which correspond to the actors' respective physical statures.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 304 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1994–2025
- Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor1990
How their films are shot
Measured across 304 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tony 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, 63% natural — the look of the work Tony 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 304 frames from Tony Leung Ka-fai'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.