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• Humanity And Paper Balloons | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Widely regarded as Yamanaka's greatest achievement Humanity and Paper Balloons [Ninjo kami fusen] was tragically his last film and only one of three that survive today. In a short six year 22 film career Yamanaka quickly earned a reputation for exceptionally fluid editing and a beautiful visual form likened to the paintings of Japanese masters. The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century in a poor district of Tokyo where impoverished samurai live from hand to