The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
1h 38m
Running Time
June 1, 1958Release Date
The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
1h 38m
Running Time
June 1, 1958Release Date
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Plot.
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Where to Watch.



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Cast & Crew.

Kinuyo Tanaka
Orin

Teiji Takahashi
Tatsuhei

Yūko Mochizuki
Tamayan

Seiji Miyaguchi
Matayan

Yūnosuke Itō
Matayan's son

Ken Mitsuda
Teruyan

Danko Ichikawa
Kesakichi

Keiko Ogasawara
Matsu-yan

Eijirō Tōno
Messenger

Kō Nishimura
One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)

Katsuyuki Hattori
Tatsuhei's son (uncredited)

Tokuji Kobayashi
One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)

Masao Oda
One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)

Shichirō Fukazawa
Novel

Shûzô Horikawa
Sound Mixer

Keisuke Kinoshita
Director / Writer

Hisao Ōno
Sound Recordist

Hideo Nishizaki
Sound Recordist

Yoshi Sugihara
Editor

Mototsugu Komaki
Set Decoration

Masaharu Kokaji
Producer

Chūji Kinoshita
Original Music Composer

Matsunosuke Nozawa
Original Music Composer

Chiyoo Umeda
Art Direction

Hiroshi Kusuda
Director of Photography

Yoshikazu Ōtsuki
Assistant Director

Toshikazu Sugiyama
Costume Design

Genzô Furumiya
Set Designer

Ryuzo Otani
Producer

Kisaku Ito
Production Design
Media.





Details.
This Movie Is About.
family relationships
dying traditions
social convention
Wiki.
The Ballad of Narayama (Japanese: 楢山節考, Hepburn: Narayama-bushi Kō) is a 1958 Japanese historical drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It is based on the 1956 novella of the same name by Shichirō Fukazawa. The film explores the legendary practice of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die.
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