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Flowers of Shanghai (1998) colour palette

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien · Shot by Mark Lee Ping-Bing

Flowers of Shanghai (1998), shot by Mark Lee Ping-Bing, runs highly saturated and strongly warm, measured across 24 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is deep orange (#120d05), covering 12.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits very dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.827 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

highly saturated

0.617 — more saturated than 99% of ranked films

Luminance

very dark

0.294 — brighter than 1% of ranked films

Measured across 24 frames. See the frames on the Flowers of Shanghai page →

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