The Men Who Tread on the Tigers Tail (1945) colour palette
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Shot by Takeo Itō
- #010101near black · 16.6%
- #707070mid grey · 14.6%
- #909090mid grey · 13.7%
- #313131dark grey · 13.2%
- #cbcbcblight grey · 12.7%
- #484848dark grey · 11.2%
The Men Who Tread on the Tigers Tail (1945), shot by Takeo Itō, is monochrome: across 41 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 (#010101), covering 16.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.
Colour
Monochrome
below 0.05 mean saturation
Saturation
monochrome
0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films
Luminance
mid-key
0.454 — brighter than 79% of ranked films
Measured across 41 frames. See the frames on the The Men Who Tread on the Tigers Tail page →
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