The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Directed by Takashi Miike · Cinematography by Hideo Yamamoto
R113 min61 frames
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What is The Happiness of the Katakuris about?
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
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Sampled across 61 frames, the coverage of The Happiness of the Katakuris leans on medium shots (33% of the sample) and full-body frames (25%). The camera returns again and again to low angles. Cinematographer Hideo Yamamoto keeps 41% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Vintage glass shapes the frame.
What is the color palette of The Happiness of the Katakuris?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) are #f7f8f6, #33302d, #4c4d4a, #050506, #d7d5d0, #29324f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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