Takako Misaki
2021人情紙風船
Sadao Yamanaka
Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura
Unno, a masterless samurai, has been supported financially since his father's death by his wife, who makes small paper balloons. He hopes that Mouri, his father's former master, will hire him after being given a letter from Unno's father. Unno's neighbor, Shinza, a hairdresser by trade, is under constant threat by gang members after running gambling dens on their territory.
Humanity and Paper Balloons
大日向村
Shiro Toyoda
Kinji Fujiwa, Toshiko Itô
The year is 1936. Ôhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes from the villagers but he knows full well that no one can afford to pay the village tax which has been unpaid for years...
Ôhinata-mura