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With Humanity and Paper Balloons, Sadao Yamanaka managed to craft one of the most brutally honest showcases of society I have seen put to screen. Just as sad is that only 3 of his movies still exist to showcase his extreme talents. Sadao Yamanaka’s Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) ends with a poetic imagery of a hand-made paper balloon landing in a gutter, set adrift by the light breeze. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India … Country: Japan. Didn't feel it reached any emotional climax in any of the situations. A wonderful little movie with clear influence on Kurosawa's work, specifically High and Low. Review by Kai White âââââ 2. Just as sad is that only 3 of his movies still exist to showcase his extreme talents. ChÃ´emon BandÃ´ Emitaro Ichikawa ChÃ´jÃ»rÃ´ Kawarasaki Noboru Kiritachi Kan'emon Nakamura Tsuruzo Nakamura SukezÃ´ Sukedakaya Shizue Kawarazaki Toshio Arashi Kikunosuke Ichikawa RakusaburÃ´ Ichikawa Daisuke KatÅ Takako Misaki Kozaburo Nakamura Kikunojo Segawa, P.C.L. It was released as Humanity and Paper Ballooons with English subtitles in August 1982 in the United States. Rob Sweeney provides an excellent primer on Yakamana, FINISHED PROJECT: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by (all) members of Letterboxd, The 1001 Greatest Films, ranked as objectively as possible, The 100 Greatest Documentaries, ranked as objectively as possible, The Most Comprehensive List of Japanese Movies Ever...Maybe, They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? He died tragically before reaching his thirtieth birthday and only three of the twenty-plus films he directed in his brief, prolific career survive today. Il s'agit d'un film qui met en scÃ¨ne un samouraÃ¯ comme l'un des personnages principaux. This kind of connected lives film rarely is able to interest me, though at least this director did a fair job at fleshing out each of their many characters and the camerawork is above average. Of husbands and wives, suicide and shame, swindlers and samurai, poverty and opportunity, hairdressers, hustling, gambling, gallows humor, sake, slums, magistrates, gangsters, paper balloons and poor decisions. It's not just any old society however, as Yamanaka chose to highlight one of the most drastic areas of humanity -- The slums of 18th Century Japan. Sadao Yamanaka’s exquisite swansong finds the prodigious director casting his gaze upon a bustling tenement in Edo-era Japan and spinning a rich, vibrant yarn that flows … By K. F. Watanabe. 9 films watched. 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. Boasting naturalistic performances and fine ensemble playing (from the left-wing theatre troupe Zenshin-za), The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this … It breaks my heart that Sadao Yamanaka died at the age of 28, months after completing Humanity and Paper Balloons. The Battle of Chile Part One represents all three parts. Mobile site. Favorites: The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959), Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937), Confessions (2010). Film data from TMDb. Humanity and Paper Balloons (人情紙風船)Director: Sadao Yamanaka. if he had survived. bastardjony2 uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Sadao Yamanaka gives us a loose, humanist look at a down at heel neighbourhood of 18th century Japan with people clinging to tradition and heirarchy and old certainties only to constantly find them hollow and unsustaining.