Humanity and Paper Balloons

Humanity and Paper Balloons
Directed bySadao Yamanaka
Written byShintarō Mimura
Produced byTakeyama Masanobu
Starring
  • Chojuro Kawarasaki
  • Kanemon Nakamura
  • Shizue Yamagishi
CinematographyAkira Mimura
Edited byKoichi Iwashita
Music byTadashi Ota
Production
companies
  • P.C.L.
  • Zenshin-za Production
[1]
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 25 August 1937 (1937-08-25) (Japan)
[2][3]
Running time
86 minutes[2][3]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) by Sadao Yamanaka

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.[4]

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.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference galbraith was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "人情紙風船 (Humanity and Paper Balloons)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b "人情紙風船 (Humanity and Paper Balloons)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  4. ^ "The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now". British Film Institute. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  5. ^ "「オールタイム・ベスト 映画遺産200」全ランキング公開". Archived from the original on December 15, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2024.