The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Cinematography by Kazuo Yamasaki
126 min65 frames
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What is The Hidden Fortress about?
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
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What does the cinematography of The Hidden Fortress look like?
Sampled across 65 frames, the coverage of The Hidden Fortress leans on wide compositions (51% of the sample) and medium shots (23%). Cinematographer Kazuo Yamasaki keeps 60% of it in hard-edged, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 77% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 74% of the frames.
What is the color palette of The Hidden Fortress?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Hidden Fortress (1958) are #494949, #8c8c8b, #060606, #2c2c2c, #afafaf, #6d6d6d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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