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It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
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Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 70GoodWatch 67
IMDb7.0
Running time
1 h 59 min
A typical length for dramas, +10 min on the typical 109
typical 109119Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1999
January 15, 1999
27 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Made in
- Japan
and 7 moreDirecting · 1
- Kaneto Shindō Director, Writer
Production · 1
- Jirô Shindô Producer
Camera · 1
- Yoshiyuki Miyake Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Yukio Watanabe Editor
Sound · 1
- Hikaru Hayashi Original Music Composer
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