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Humanity and Paper Balloons

Cast

Ch�emon Band�, Emitaro Ichikawa, Ch�j�r� Kawarasaki, Noboru Kiritachi View All

Crew

Sadao Yamanaka (Director), Shintar? Mimura (Screenplay) View All

Release: Aug. 25th, 1937

Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes

In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married.

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Citizen Rules
But then I realized this isn't a highly dramatic film, it's intended to be a study of a cross section of working poor people who live in little apartments...as shown in that photo.

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pahaK
In few places the film drags a little and some scenes go on for too long (like Shinza trying to pawn his barber kit).