Humanity and Paper Balloons

Humanity and Paper Balloons , Ninj Kami Fsen? is a 1937 blackandwhite film directed by Sadao Yamanaka, his last film.

Largely unknown outside Japan for years, the film has been hailed by critics such as Tadao Sato and Donald Richie, and a number of other Japanese filmmakers, including Akira Kurosawa among them, as one of the most influential examples of jidaigeki, or Japanese period films.citation needed Jasper Sharp of Midnight Eye described the film as a fascinating time capsule of a movie that not only reframes the feudal period in which it is set to present a harsh critique of the social and political conditions of the time it was made, but also demonstrates just how tight, coherent, and entertaining films from this period actually were. In 2012, Spanish film programmer Fran Gayo listed the film as one of the greatest films of all time. ........

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