The Balloon (風船, Fûsen) is a 1956 black and white Japanese film drama directed by Yuzo Kawashima based on a novel by Jiro Osaragi[2] and adapted for the screen by Kawashima and Shohei Imamura.[3]
| The Balloon | |
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| Directed by | Yuzo Kawashima |
| Written by | Shôhei Imamura Yuzo Kawashima Jirô Osaragi |
| Cinematography | Kuratarô Takamura |
| Edited by | Tadashi Nakamura |
| Music by | Toshirô Mayuzumi |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
In post-war Japan a middle aged family man connects with a woman from his past. He has two children, an arrogant son who is torn between his mistress and a new lover, and a disabled daughter who gets mixed up in the affair.[4]
In 2018 the Japanese film studio Nikkatsu and VOD platform MUBI collaborated on a retrospective of the work of Kawashima to be available to stream in the US to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The Balloon was among the films that were screened.[5] In February 2020 the same retrospective was available to stream on MUBI in the Nordic countries.[6]
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