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The Whispering Star (2015) colour palette

Directed by Sion Sono · Shot by Hideo Yamamoto

The Whispering Star (2015), shot by Hideo Yamamoto, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are yellow and orange. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f2f2d), covering 19.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.826 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.053 — more saturated than 4% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.473 — brighter than 87% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the The Whispering Star page →

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