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
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?
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Cast & Crew.
Kinuyo Tanaka
Orin
Teiji Takahashi
Tatsuhei
Yūko Mochizuki
Tamayan
Danko Ichikawa
Kesakichi
Seiji Miyaguchi
Mata-yan
Yūnosuke Itō
Matayan's son
Eijirō Tōno
Messenger
Ken Mitsuda
Teruyan
Keiko Ogasawara
Matsu-yan
Kō Nishimura
One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
Katsuyuki Hattori
Tatsuhei's son (uncredited)
Masao Oda
Villager
Tokuji Kobayashi
One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)
Keisuke Kinoshita
Director
Shichirō Fukazawa
Writer
Shûzô Horikawa
Sound Mixer
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The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, 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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