Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
- Original title
- 人情紙風船
- Directed by
- Sadao Yamanaka
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 52 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In a poor tenement community during the Tokugawa period, residents struggle with desperate poverty. Some turn to crime or suicide as a way out of their harsh lives.
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What happens
Humanity and Paper Balloons (人情紙風船, Ninjō kami fūsen) is a 1937 Japanese jidaigeki tragedy film directed by Sadao Yamanaka. The film follows the lives of the members of a small tenement community who live under the shadow of the Tokugawa Shogunate. In order to cope with their impoverished circumstances, some turn to crime or suicide. It was Yamanaka's last film before his death. In Japan it is regarded as one of the country's best films by critics. Kinema Junpo, the leading film magazine of Japan, ranked it the 23rd (tied) best Japanese film of all time in a 2009 poll of leading critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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