The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) colour palette
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · Shot by Yoshio Miyajima
- #6e6e6emid grey · 14.8%
- #060606near black · 14.2%
- #cececelight grey · 13.8%
- #909090mid grey · 13.5%
- #2e2e2edark grey · 12.9%
- #4b4b4bdark grey · 12.9%
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959), shot by Yoshio Miyajima, is monochrome: across 65 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 mid grey (#6e6e6e), covering 14.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.
Colour
Monochrome
below 0.05 mean saturation
Saturation
monochrome
0.002 — more saturated than 3% of ranked films
Luminance
mid-key
0.454 — brighter than 79% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the The Human Condition I: No Greater Love page →
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