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One Wonderful Sunday (1947) colour palette

Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Shot by Asakazu Nakai

One Wonderful Sunday (1947), shot by Asakazu Nakai, is monochrome: across 12 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from dark tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#070707), covering 20% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.382 — brighter than 27% of ranked films

Measured across 12 frames. See the frames on the One Wonderful Sunday page →

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