Hanagatami

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi · Cinematography by Kujô Sanbongi

169 min61 frames

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Hanagatami movie still: fullbody — Four students in traditional school uniforms sit together on a grassy slope with rocks. They laugh and share a… — Hanagatami — © PSC, Karatsu Film Committee

Hanagatami movie still: wide — A dark, uneven forest ground is covered in damp, reddish-brown fallen leaves. A pale, slender snake moves across the… — Hanagatami — © PSC, Karatsu Film Committee

Hanagatami — official trailer

What is Hanagatami about?

Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's gravitational pull.

Hanagatami is a 2017 Japanese war film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, based on a 1937 novel by Kazuo Dan. The film tells a story of the purity of youth beset by the chaos of war, inspired by Obayashi's own childhood. It revolves around Toshihiko, a sixteen-year-old teenager who moves in with his aunt in Karatsu, and develops friendships and romances with the inhabitants of the town as World War II rages. The film was originally conceived during the 1970s, before Obayashi made his feature film directorial debut with House (1977), but was not produced for another 40 years. Before production, Obayashi was diagnosed with stage-four cancer and was only given a few months to live.

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Where can you watch Hanagatami?

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Who stars in Hanagatami?

Who made Hanagatami?

Nobuhiko ObayashiDirector
Hisaki SanbongiCinematography
Terumichi YamazakiProducer

What does the cinematography of Hanagatami look like?

Sampled across 61 frames, the coverage of Hanagatami leans on wide compositions (36% of the sample) and medium shots (28%). Cinematographer Kujô Sanbongi keeps 52% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 67% of the frames. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 61% of the frames.

What is the color palette of Hanagatami?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Hanagatami are #0a0507, #0a142b, #f5f4f3, #312e2a, #cfcdcd, #7b90ae — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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