Tag: IMAGE ANALYSIS

3. The original script for Ozu’s “The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice” was written and submitted to Censorship Board in 1939. The script was rejected, and Shochiku had to shelve it with no prospect for the production. The story concerns the man of humble origin but hard-working and his spoiled wife from rich family. The husband is too serious and boring for her taste, so the wife goes on spending spree and expensive trips. But the husband receives the draft notice, which upsets her. She realizes that her husband is quite a remarkable person, being calm when facing such …

These days, most of us use modern digital technologies, ranging from cell phones, digital camera, GPS to Internet apps like Facebook or Twitter. Digital technologies has revolutionized how we interact with information, how we communicate and how we manipulate and store the data. Anyone who has a digital camera (and many of you probably own more than one) must have tinkered with image processing tools. Some of you did enhancement or text insert with one of those bundled software. Or may have used Photoshop or GIMP to give it more professional look. In any case, the processing techniques once limited …

Bright sequences in “There Was A Father” are; The field trip in Hakone, Scene 0397, B=0.4403 The father and the son visiting the castle ruin, Scene 0982, B=0.4372 The father and the son fishing in the river, Scene 1401, B=0.4731 The building of the father’s office, Scene 2009, B=0.4114 Schoolboys sitting on the bridge, Scene 2436, B=0.4445 The father’s last words, Scene 4764, B=0.3914 Understandably, 5 out of 6 are the (daytime) exterior scenes. There are several spots of dark sequences, three of which are; The wake session of the dead students, Scene 0623, B=0.1594 The night scene in the …