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The Boys From Fengkuei poster

The Boys From Fengkuei (1983) colour palette

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien · Shot by Chen Kun-Hou

The Boys From Fengkuei (1983), shot by Chen Kun-Hou, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 56 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#32322e), covering 10% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.617 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.133 — more saturated than 7% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.505 — brighter than 95% of ranked films

Measured across 56 frames. See the frames on the The Boys From Fengkuei page →

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