The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (1961)
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · Cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima
190 min62 frames
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What is The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer about?
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.
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Sampled across 60 frames, the coverage of The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer leans on wide compositions (40% of the sample) and medium shots (32%). Cinematographer Yoshio Miyajima keeps 48% of it in naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 42% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 70% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (1961) are #040404, #8f8f8f, #2f2f2f, #6a6a6a, #cacaca, #4a4a4a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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