Kubi (2023)
Directed by Takeshi Kitano · Cinematography by Takeshi Hamada
131 min43 frames
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What is Kubi about?
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Kubi is a 2023 Japanese historical samurai film written, directed, produced and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars as Hashiba Hideyoshi. The film is based on the novel of the same name, which was released in 2019 and written by Kitano. The film depicts the historical event of the Honnō-ji incident, which took place in the Sengoku period in 1582. Kadokawa Corporation produced the film and co-distributed it in Japan with Toho. The film also stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Akechi Mitsuhide, Ryo Kase as Oda Nobunaga, Tadanobu Asano as Kuroda Kanbei, Jun Soejima as Yasuke and Nao Omori as Hashiba Hidenaga.
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What does the cinematography of Kubi look like?
Sampled across 43 frames, the coverage of Kubi leans on wide compositions (35% of the sample) and medium shots (30%). Cinematographer Takeshi Hamada keeps 63% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 67% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1900s and 1910s.
What is the color palette of Kubi?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Kubi (2023) are #30312c, #51554e, #131412, #364c33, #a8a994, #4f6753 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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