继《轮到你了》之后，#田中圭#再演姐弟恋，在新片《总理的丈夫》里与中谷美纪(《被嫌弃的松子的一生》)搭档演夫妻！田中饰演鸟类学者相马日和，中谷饰演少数在野党党首凛子。在日和为观察野生鸟类出差而与世隔绝的10天里，凛子当选为日本史上第一位女首相，从此日和被妻子的部下监视，被媒体追逐，受到了全日本的热切关注。影片由《哥哥太爱我了怎么办》导演河合勇人执导，将于2021年秋季在日本上映。

本片是山中貞雄的遺作，也是他的“時代劇的庶民電影”的代表作之一。他在片中吸取了美國電影和法國電影的影響，並受到摯友兼老師小津安二郎的“小庶民電影 ”美學影響，將歷史上江戶時代的小人物形像注入現代庶民的語言、性格、行止、靈魂，成就了一部難得的社會現實主義的佳作。故事發生於十八世紀德川幕府時代，以悲涼調子訴說德川幕府時期低下層的生活，開頭與結尾都是自殺場景，映照出舊時日本社會草根階層的悲哀。另外，山中的剪輯流暢自如，視覺風格鋒如日本繪畫，演員表演也很自然。此片公認為山中最好的作品，也是他僅存的三部電影之一。Humanity and Paper Balloons,unlike most other Japanese films of this period,is a historical film with a critical edge.Refusing to glorify samurai,the film insteaddeflates the myth around them with a gentle humanity. The film opens directly after a penurious ronin samurai has taken his own life.At his funeral his neighbors from his slum mourn his death. Here the film introduces another ronin samurai who lives in equal poverty. Having pawned his sword for food,the samurai searches for work but to no avail. The family's only income comes from the little balloon children's toys made by the wife.Out of desperation,the samurai abets in an attempted kidnapping. After finding out,the wife kills him in his sleep and then takes her own life, closing the film's narrative circle.Brian Whitener, All Movie Guide.

德川幕府倒台，日本进入开明的民主时代。但是明治时期政府、军队及至商贾仍存在腐败贪婪的现象。明治八年爆发血税暴乱，小学教师鹿岛刚（大門正明 饰）携家眷旅行途中遭到暴乱农民的袭击，鹿岛和儿子司郎（内田慎一 饰）惨遭杀害，他的妻子小夜（赤座美代子 饰）则被暴民侵犯。在此之后，小夜瞅准时机杀死一名暴徒，入狱后她与狱警、官员私通，千方百计产下一女，取名雪姬，并将为家族复仇的使命交给女儿。狱友同情小夜的遭遇，想尽办法将雪姬托付给武功高强的僧人大臣道海（西村晃 饰）修行。20年后，背负着莫大仇恨的修罗雪姬（梶芽衣子 饰）携着血雨腥风来至人间……本片根据小池一夫（漫画脚本）和上村一夫（作画）的漫画原著改编，主题歌后被昆汀·塔伦蒂诺用到《杀死比尔》中。

In 1880, Muybridge first projected moving images on a screen when he gave a presentation at the California School of Fine Arts; this was the earliest known motion picture exhibition.