Madadayo (1993)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Cinematography by Shoji Ueda, Takao Saitō
134 min44 frames
DramaComedy
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What is Madadayo about?
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.
Madadayo is a 1993 Japanese comedy-drama film. It is the thirtieth and final film to be completed by Akira Kurosawa before his death. It was screened out of competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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What does the cinematography of Madadayo look like?
Sampled across 44 frames, the coverage of Madadayo leans on medium shots (55% of the sample) and wide compositions (25%). Cinematographer Shoji Ueda keeps 73% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 73% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Madadayo?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Madadayo (1993) are #32312b, #aca792, #8f8b75, #55564f, #d5d2c6, #f2f2ec — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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