Humanity and Paper Balloons
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8/10 Letterboxd Genre Drama Screenplay Shintaro Mimura Writer Shintaro Mimura Language Japanese | 7.8/10 IMDb Music director Tadashi Ota Duration Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 25 August 1937 (1937-08-25) Cast Chojuro Kawarasaki, Kanemon Nakamura, Daisuke Kato Similar movies Daisuke Kato and Kanemon Nakamura appear in Humanity and Paper Balloons and The 47 Ronin |
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Humanity and Paper Balloons (人情紙風船, Ninjō Kami Fūsen) is a 1937 black-and-white film directed by Sadao Yamanaka, his last film.
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- Plot
- Cast
- Reception
- References

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Plot
The story is set in the 18th century, and dramatically depicts the struggles and schemes of Unno, a ronin, or masterless samurai in feudal Japan, as well as those of his similarly impoverished neighbours.
Cast
Reception

Largely unknown outside Japan for years, the film has been hailed by critics such as Tadao Sato and Donald Richie, and Japanese filmmakers including Akira Kurosawa, as one of the most influential examples of jidaigeki, or Japanese period films.

Jasper Sharp of Midnight Eye described the film as "a fascinating time capsule of a movie that not only reframes the feudal period in which it is set to present a harsh critique of the social and political conditions of the time it was made, but also demonstrates just how tight, coherent, and entertaining films from this period actually were." In 2012, Spanish film programmer Fran Gayo listed the film as one of the greatest films of all time.

References
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