The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · Cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima
208 min61 frames
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What is The Human Condition I: No Greater Love about?
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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What does the cinematography of The Human Condition I: No Greater Love look like?
Across 61 sampled frames, The Human Condition I: No Greater Love builds its coverage from medium shots (39% of the sample), with wide compositions (38%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Yoshio Miyajima keeps 48% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 43% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 74% of the frames.
What is the color palette of The Human Condition I: No Greater Love?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) are #6e6e6e, #060606, #cdcdcd, #8f8f8f, #2e2e2e, #4b4b4b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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