HUMANITY AND PAPER BALLOONS (1937) - REMASTERED
Price: $12.99
Description:
Ninjo kami fusen - The story
develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo,
where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among equally poor people of
lower social classes.
One such ronin (masterless samurai) Matajuro, spends his day
looking for work whilst his wife, Otaki, makes cheap paper balloons at home. One
rainy night, Shinza, a barber, and equally penniless, impulsively abducts the
daughter of a wealthy merchant, hiding her at Matajuro's home.
Their desperate plan has grave consequences when a ransom
attempt backfires. The film, which starts and ends with suicide, is deeply
pessimistic, insisting that life in feudal Japan was hellish and short for those
at the foot of the social ladder.
Directed by Sadao Yamanaka
Starring: Choemon Bando, Emitaro Ichikawa, Chojuro
Kawarasaki
1937 - JAPANESE with ENGLISH SUBTITLES - FULL SCREEN - B&W
- 85 MINUTES
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