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Humanity and Paper Balloons
Humanity and Paper Balloons
8.6
/10
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HUMANITY AND PAPER BALLOONS

人情紙風船 | Ninjô kami fûsen

Directed by Sadao Yamanaka
Japan, 1937
Drama

Synopsis

The story develops in the feudal Tokugawa (Edo) era of Japan in the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished Matajuro Unno, a rōnin (master-less samurai), lives from hand to mouth among equally poor people of lower social classes.

Synopsis

The story develops in the feudal Tokugawa (Edo) era of Japan in the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished Matajuro Unno, a rōnin (master-less samurai), lives from hand to mouth among equally poor people of lower social classes.