The Ballad of Narayama
1983·Movie
·2h 10min·
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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.
Japanese Social CommentaryBleak FatalismIntergenerational DramaSacrifice and DutyMountain Village LifeSlow-PacedVisceral RealismPowerful PerformancesDeeply Unsettling
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Directed by:
Shōhei Imamura, Shunsaku Ikehata, Takashi Tsukinoki
Written by:
Shōhei Imamura, Shichirō Fukazawa
Produced by:
Jirô Tomoda
Composed by:
Shinichirô Ikebe, Kenichi Benitani, Toshio Nakano
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