Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945) colour palette

Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Shot by Takeo Itō

#020202near black · 19.4%
#313131dark grey · 15.3%
#8e8e8emid grey · 14.1%
#6d6d6dmid grey · 12.8%
#cccccclight grey · 12.2%
#fafafanear white · 9.4%

Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945), shot by Takeo Itō, is monochrome: across 64 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#020202), covering 19.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0.001 — more saturated than 3% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.437 — brighter than 67% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Sanshiro Sugata Part II page →

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