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The Ballad of Narayama

Drama

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?

Date: 06/01/1958
Rating: 7.4
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

Kinuyo Tanaka as Orin in The Ballad of Narayama Kinuyo Tanaka

Teiji Takahashi as Tatsuhei in The Ballad of Narayama Teiji Takahashi

Yūko Mochizuki as Tamayan in The Ballad of Narayama Yūko Mochizuki

Seiji Miyaguchi as Matayan in The Ballad of Narayama Seiji Miyaguchi

Yūnosuke Itō as Matayan's son in The Ballad of Narayama Yūnosuke Itō

Ken Mitsuda

Danko Ichikawa as Kesakichi in The Ballad of Narayama Danko Ichikawa

Keiko Ogasawara

Eijirō Tōno as Messenger in The Ballad of Narayama Eijirō Tōno

Kō Nishimura as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited) in The Ballad of Narayama Kō Nishimura

Katsuyuki Hattori

Tokuji Kobayashi as One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited) in The Ballad of Narayama Tokuji Kobayashi

Masao Oda as One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited) in The Ballad of Narayama Masao Oda

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