Humanity and Paper Balloons
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| Directed by | Sadao Yamanaka |
| Produced by | Toho |
| Written by | Shintarō Mimura |
| Starring | Chojuro Kawarazaki Kanemon Nakamura Shizue Yamagishi |
| Music by | Tadashi Ota |
| Cinematography | Akira Mimura |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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86 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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
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
- Chojuro Kawarazaki
- Kanemon Nakamura
- Shizue Yamagishi
- Noboru Kiritachi
- Tsurozo Nakamura
- Choemon Bando
- Suzeko Suketakaya
- Emitaro Ichikawa
Reception
Largely unknown outside of Japan for years, the film has been hailed by critics such as Tadao Sato and Donald Richie, and a number of other Japanese filmmakers, including Akira Kurosawa among them, as one of the most influential examples of jidaigeki, or Japanese period films.[citation needed]
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."[1] In 2012, Spanish film programmer Fran Gayo listed the film as one of the greatest films of all time.[2]
References
- Donald Richie: 100 Years Of Japanese Cinema, Kodansha, 2003.
- Arne Svensson: Japan: Screen Series, Zwemmer/Barnes, 1970.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Humanity and Paper Balloons at IMDb
- Humanity and Paper Balloons at AllMovie
- Humanity and Paper Balloons at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
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