Humanity and Paper Balloons,unlike most other Japanese films of this period,is a historical film with a critical edge.Refusing to glorify samurai,the film insteaddeflates the myth around them with a gentle humanity. The film opens directly after a penurious ronin samurai has taken his own life.At his funeral his neighbors from his slum mourn his death. Here the film introduces another ronin samurai who lives in equal poverty. Having pawned his sword for food,the samurai searches for work but to no avail. The family’s only income comes from the little balloon children’s toys made by the wife.Out of desperation,the samurai abets in an attempted kidnapping. After finding out,the wife kills him in his sleep and then takes her own life, closing the film’s narrative circle.
Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC LC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity Codec ID : A_AAC-2 Duration : 1 h 26 min Bit rate : 137 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 84.4 MiB (3%) Language : Japanese Default : Yes Forced : No
Menu 00:00:00.000 : en:01. Opening Credits 00:02:18.138 : en:02. A Sunny Day 00:05:39.256 : en:03. The Wake 00:15:06.906 : en:04. Drawing Lots 00:19:50.481 : en:05. Mr. Mori 00:23:24.945 : en:06. Miss Okoma 00:31:06.531 : en:07. Shinza The Gambler 00:34:11.049 : en:08. Noodles 00:36:35.193 : en:09. The Pawn Shop 00:45:17.715 : en:10. A Rest 00:48:29.782 : en:11. Festival Night 00:51:25.207 : en:12. At Mori\’s House 00:55:58.063 : en:13. The Kidnap 01:06:13.344 : en:14. Release 01:14:15.117 : en:15. Drinks with Unno 01:20:28.824 : en:16. \”Fetch The Landlord\”