---
name: "Kimi Howl Lee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kimi-howl-lee"
fi1m_id: "kimi-howl-lee"
imdb_id: "nm5612209"
tmdb_id: 2684724
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T00:28:00.577615+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kimi Howl Lee

## Identity

Kimi Howl Lee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kimi-howl-lee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kimi-howl-lee
- **IMDb ID:** nm5612209
- **TMDB ID:** 2684724
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5612209/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2684724

Writer. Born in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Also known as:** Kimi Lee
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5612209/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2684724

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Sunny*](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kimi Howl Lee is a writer and director. She is a graduate of Stanford University’s Film and Media Studies programme and began her career curating short-form content as a story editor at Snapchat before moving into screenwriting.

Lee wrote the feature script *Mouth*, which won the grand prize for Best Narrative Feature at the 2015 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. She wrote and directed the short film *Sugar* (2015). Her television credits include story editor and writer roles on *Locke & Key* (2020–2021), writer on *The Morning Show* (2023), director on *The Chi* (2021), and writer and executive story editor on *Sunny* (2024). She also wrote the feature *Yakuza Princess* (2021) and the short *Kama’aina* (2020).

*Sources: pro.imdb.com, filmindependent.org, bluecatscreenplay.com, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sunny* (2024), Fi1m 64, Executive Story Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sunny* (2024), series, Executive Story Editor, Writer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)
- *Yakuza Princess* (2021), Writer
- *Locke & Key* (2020), series, Story Editor
- *Kama'āina* (2020), Director, Writer
- *The Morning Show* (2019), series, Writer, Co-Producer
- *The Chi* (2018), series, Director

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