The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
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In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.
At a glance
- Release date
- 1958-06-01
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Cast
- Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yūko Mochizuki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yūnosuke Itō, Ken Mitsuda, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara
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