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Information
- A.k.a.
- Humanity and Paper Balloons
- Year
- 1937
- Runtime
- 86 min.
- Director
- Sadao Yamanaka
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 7.8
- Votes *
- 1,393
- Checks
- 710
- Favs
- 76
- Dislikes
- 3
- Favs/checks
- 10.7% (1:9)
- Favs/dislikes
- 25:1
Top comments
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monty
5 years 1 month agoquote:When he was still an assistant director, one day [Akira] Kurosawa visited the open set where Sadao Yamanaka was shooting Humanity and Paper Balloons (Ninjo Kamifusen, 1937). It was the scene where the unemployed ronin (masterless samurai) Matajuro, played by Chojuro Kawarazaki, tries to hand over a letter of entreaty to a senior official. What Kurosawa never forgot about that day was that even though the weather was perfectly fine, everybody was just standing around idly, peering up at the sky. He learned that they were waiting for a cloud to waft over a warehouse on the set.
- Teruyo Nogami, Waiting on the Weather , p. 17 -
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