The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
楢山節考
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.
- Date of release
- 1983-04-29
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (212)
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
Casting
- Ken Ogata — Tatsuhei
- Sumiko Sakamoto — Orin
- Tonpei Hidari — Risuke
- Aki Takejo — Tamayan
- Shoichi Ozawa — Katsuzô
- Fujio Tokita — Jinsaku
- Sanshō Shinsui — Zeniya Tadayan
- Seiji Kurasaki — Kesakichi
- Junko Takada — Matsuyan
- Mitsuko Baisho — Oei
- Taiji Tonoyama — Teruyan
- Ben Hiura — Yakimatsu
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