"A young housewife in a good neighborhood refuses to ignore the ragman, the blind girl, the homeless dog, and thus precipitates a confrontation with, among others, her husband. But she won't back down-the order of the pronouns in the title tells it all." (Donald Richie) Western critics compared She and He to Antonioni, and indeed Hani enters similar thematic territory in telling of a middle-class woman's sudden realization of the world around her. Hani infuses an elliptical narrative with a sense of authenticity drawn from on-location shooting and a cast of both professional and non-professional actors (Ikona, the ragpicker, is portrayed by a spindly painter in his first acting role; the blind girl, by a blind girl). Sachiko Hidari won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival (where the film won top prize) for her portrayal of a woman driven mad by so-called happiness.