School in the Crosshairs (1981)

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi · Cinematography by Yoshitaka Sakamoto

90 min63 frames

FantasyScience FictionComedy

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What is School in the Crosshairs about?

Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!

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What does the cinematography of School in the Crosshairs look like?

Across 63 sampled frames, School in the Crosshairs builds its coverage from medium shots (46% of the sample), with wide compositions (22%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Yoshitaka Sakamoto keeps 44% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 56% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1980s.

What is the color palette of School in the Crosshairs?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of School in the Crosshairs (1981) are #2d2d2b, #f6f6f5, #53524f, #0f0c0d, #d1d0ce, #acaba7 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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