Seven Samurai (1954)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Cinematography by Asakazu Nakai
207 min63 frames
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What is Seven Samurai about?
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima and Yukiko Shimazaki, it tells the story of a village of farmers who hire seven samurai to help defend their village from bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Influential in world cinema, Seven Samurai is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made.
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What does the cinematography of Seven Samurai look like?
Across 63 sampled frames, Seven Samurai builds its coverage from medium shots (43% of the sample), with wide compositions (29%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Asakazu Nakai keeps 54% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame.
What is the color palette of Seven Samurai?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Seven Samurai (1954) are #4c4c4c, #2d2d2d, #8d8d8c, #050505, #6e6e6e, #afafaf — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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