{"title":"Best Samurai Movies","theme":"samurai","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/samurai","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":23,"listedFilms":12,"frames":1480,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"samurai","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":190.71,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01627,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00009,"observedInFrames":137},{"element":"hakama","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":177.62,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00689,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00004,"observedInFrames":58},{"element":"samurai armor","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":146.08,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0063,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00004,"observedInFrames":53},{"element":"katana","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":134.08,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01711,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00013,"observedInFrames":144},{"element":"kimono","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":105.44,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.05108,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00048,"observedInFrames":430},{"element":"topknot","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":104.92,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00796,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00008,"observedInFrames":67},{"element":"conical hat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":70.67,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00356,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00005,"observedInFrames":30},{"element":"tatami mat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":50.11,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00428,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00009,"observedInFrames":36}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"chiaroscuro","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1095,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0207,"ratio":5.29},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"wide","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3374,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1952,"ratio":1.73},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"medium","shareOfThemeFrames":0.332,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4818,"ratio":0.69},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3162,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":0.75},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3022,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":0.77}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.557,"ratio":1.23},{"hue":"blue","share":0.129,"ratio":0.74},{"hue":"red","share":0.123,"ratio":0.81},{"hue":"green","share":0.071,"ratio":1.17}],"meanSaturation":0.164,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.417,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Sanjuro","year":1962,"director":"Akira Kurosawa","cinematographer":"Fukuzo Koizumi","exemplarScore":1.511,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/sanjuro-1962"},{"rank":2,"title":"Harakiri","year":1962,"director":"Masaki Kobayashi","cinematographer":"Yoshio Miyajima","exemplarScore":1.347,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/harakiri-1962"},{"rank":3,"title":"Yojimbo","year":1961,"director":"Akira Kurosawa","cinematographer":"Kazuo Miyagawa","exemplarScore":1.324,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/yojimbo-1961"},{"rank":4,"title":"Throne of Blood","year":1957,"director":"Akira Kurosawa","cinematographer":"Asakazu Nakai","exemplarScore":1.305,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/throne-of-blood-1957"},{"rank":5,"title":"Seven Samurai","year":1954,"director":"Akira Kurosawa","cinematographer":"Asakazu Nakai","exemplarScore":1.122,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/seven-samurai-1954"},{"rank":6,"title":"The Last Samurai","year":2003,"director":"Edward Zwick","cinematographer":"John Toll","exemplarScore":0.978,"framesIndexed":166,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-last-samurai-2003"},{"rank":7,"title":"Kagemusha","year":1980,"director":"Akira Kurosawa","cinematographer":"Shoji Ueda","exemplarScore":0.984,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/kagemusha-1980"},{"rank":8,"title":"47 Ronin","year":2013,"director":"Carl Rinsch","cinematographer":"John Mathieson","exemplarScore":0.63,"framesIndexed":43,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/47-ronin-2013"},{"rank":9,"title":"Ugetsu","year":1953,"director":"Kenji Mizoguchi","cinematographer":"Kazuo Miyagawa","exemplarScore":0.543,"framesIndexed":24,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/ugetsu-1953"},{"rank":10,"title":"Rashomon","year":1950,"director":"Akira Kurosawa","cinematographer":"Kazuo Miyagawa","exemplarScore":0.463,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/rashomon-1950"}],"outlier":{"title":"Sucker Punch","year":2011,"exemplarScore":0.104,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}