The Lower Depths (1957) colour palette
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Shot by Kazuo Yamasaki
- #030303near black · 18.8%
- #303030dark grey · 17.2%
- #929292mid grey · 16.4%
- #696969mid grey · 15.6%
- #cccccclight grey · 13.2%
- #4a4a4adark grey · 9.6%
The Lower Depths (1957), shot by Kazuo Yamasaki, is monochrome: across 50 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 (#030303), covering 18.8% 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
0.399 — brighter than 39% of ranked films
Measured across 50 frames. See the frames on the The Lower Depths page →
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