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Film · 1958
The Ballad of Narayama
1h 38mDirected by Keisuke Kinoshita
- Drama
With my mother on my back, now is the time to say goodbye to this world.
In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.
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Cast
Kinuyo TanakaOrin
Teiji TakahashiTatsuhei
Yūko MochizukiTamayan
Seiji MiyaguchiMatayan
Yūnosuke ItōMatayan's son- Ken MitsudaTeruyan
Danko IchikawaKesakichi- Keiko OgasawaraMatsu-yan
Eijirō TōnoMessenger
Kō NishimuraOne of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
Masao OdaOne of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners- Katsuyuki HattoriTatsuhei's son (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Writer
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Novel
- Shichirō Fukazawa
- Music
- Matsunosuke Nozawa, Kineya Rokuzaemon XIV
- Cinematography
- Hiroshi Kusuda
- Editor
- Yoshi Sugihara
- Producer
- Masaharu Kokaji, Ryuzo Otani
- Release
- June 1, 1958
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Language
- Japanese
- Studio
- Shochiku
- TMDB score
- 7.6 / 10 from 94 votes
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