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The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
“Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…”
Drama · 2h 10m
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.
Cast
Ken Ogata
Sumiko Sakamoto
Tonpei Hidari
Aki Takejo
Shoichi Ozawa
Fujio Tokita
Sanshō Shinsui
Seiji Kurasaki
Junko Takada
Mitsuko Baisho
Taiji Tonoyama
Ben Hiura
Crew
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Screenplay
- Shōhei Imamura
- Novel
- Shichirō Fukazawa
- Director of Photography
- Masao Tochizawa
- Original Music Composer
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Editor
- Hajime Okayasu, Toshihiko Kojima, Fusako Matsumoto, Yoshiko Onodera, Masahito Watanabe
- Producer
- Jirô Tomoda
Details
- Original title
- 楢山節考
- Release date
- 1983-04-29
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company