Film · 1983
The Ballad of Narayama
2h 10mDirected by Shōhei Imamura
- Drama
Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
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Cast
Ken OgataTatsuhei
Sumiko SakamotoOrin
Tonpei HidariRisuke
Aki TakejoTamayan
Shoichi OzawaKatsuzô
Fujio TokitaJinsaku
Sanshō ShinsuiZeniya Tadayan
Seiji KurasakiKesakichi
Junko TakadaMatsuyan
Mitsuko BaishoOei
Taiji TonoyamaTeruyan
Ben HiuraYakimatsu
Details
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Writer
- Shōhei Imamura
- Novel
- Shichirō Fukazawa
- Music
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Cinematography
- Masao Tochizawa
- Editor
- Hajime Okayasu, Fusako Matsumoto, Toshihiko Kojima
- Producer
- Jirô Tomoda
- Release
- April 29, 1983
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Language
- Japanese
- Studio
- Toei Company
- TMDB score
- 7.5 / 10 from 213 votes
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