FrameThrower · Actors · Trần Nữ Yên Khê
Trần Nữ Yên Khê
2 films · 92 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1993–2000
Born 18 March 1968 · Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam
Tran Nu Yen Khe is a French-Vietnamese actress, sculptor and painter. Best known for her collaborations with her director husband Tran Anh Hung, she is a leading lady in his films, notably Scent of the Green Papaya, Cyclo and Vertical Ray of the Sun, and had briefly served as his art director and costume designer. She also owns a visual art practice with exhibitions in Paris and Ho Chi Minh City; in 2019, her work Borderline (2018) was acquired by Musée Guimet, making history as the first contemporary artwork from Southeast Asia to be included in the French National Collections
How their films are shot
Measured across 92 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Trần takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 65% of their frames are day, 63% natural — the look of the work Trần takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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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 92 frames from Trần Nữ Yên Khê's 2 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.