The Ballad of Narayama | 楢山節考
The Ballad of Narayama楢山節考
Overview
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
Kinuyo Tanaka
Teiji Takahashi
Yūko Mochizuki
Seiji Miyaguchi
Yūnosuke Itō
Ken Mitsuda
Danko Ichikawa
Keiko Ogasawara
Eijirō Tōno
Kō Nishimura
Katsuyuki Hattori
Tokuji Kobayashi
Masao Oda
Crew
Keisuke Kinoshita
Keisuke Kinoshita
Ryuzo Otani
Chiyoo Umeda
Genzô Furumiya
Chūji Kinoshita
Matsunosuke Nozawa
Toshikazu Sugiyama
Mototsugu Komaki
Yoshi Sugihara
Yoshikazu Ōtsuki
