Rashomon (1950)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa
88 min63 frames
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The husband, the wife… or the bandit?
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What is Rashomon about?
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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What does the cinematography of Rashomon look like?
Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of Rashomon leans on medium shots (32% of the sample) and close-ups (29%). Cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa keeps 60% of it in hard-edged, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 86% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 59% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Rashomon?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Rashomon (1950) are #060606, #8b8b8b, #cacaca, #484848, #6f6f6f, #303030 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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