The Ballad of Narayama
With my mother on my back, now is the time to say goodbye to this world.
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- Drama
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 1, 1958
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shochiku
- Cast
- Danko Ichikawa,Kinuyo Tanaka,Yūko Mochizuki,Seiji Miyaguchi,Eijirō Tōno,Kō Nishimura,Keiko Ogasawara,Yūnosuke Itō,Tokuji Kobayashi,Katsuyuki Hattoriand 3 more
- Director
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Producer
- Masaharu Kokaji,Ryuzo Otani
- Cinematography
- Hiroshi Kusuda
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0051980