Humanity and Paper Balloons
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8/25/1937Runtime
86 minsOverview
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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A portrait of lives scratched out at the margins of feudal Japan, where desperation and wounded pride collide with the immovable codes of a society that has no place for those who have fallen. The film moves with unhurried observation, building a sense of inescapable fate.
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