"The Ballad of Narayama" "What are you going to do at Shinyashiki, Tatsuhei?" "Nothing." "How's your Dad?" "Not so well, and not so bad" "Arlue, give me the axe" "Grandma, how old are you?" "Your teeth look so healthy" "There should be no problem even eating pinecones and dried beans" "I haven't eaten such things before" "Grandma has about 33 teeth." "Don't be silly, only 28." "You stop counting after 28." "Surely more than 28." "Kesakichi, stop talking and go to work." "Is that smelly boy still sleeping?" "Risuke, Risuke..." "Harumatsu's hungry." "Did you go to Shinyashiki last night?" "Did you go to that bitch's house by stealth with the farmhand in the country?" "No, I didn't." "They treat that dog like a sweet girl" "The ex-master has killed the farmhand who maltreated his daughter" "I said I didn't go there." "Though a farmhand, you are still my brother" "You would be disgraced if you caused some scandal" "It's so smelly here, let's go over there" "Uncle!" "I..." "What happened?" "Don't scream" "It doesn't seem so sweet now." "Where is grandma?" "Mum!" "Mum!" "You all right?" "It looks like Misuiko in the paddy field there really trouble to face her at that moment" "To meet Misuiko?" "She is so fat it would be impossible to make a mistake" "Really?" "My daughter-in-law will send me to the grave." "When?" "Within 10 days I think" "You must send me there" "Risuke, where's Misuiko?" "Where's there?" "Wash your face a little next time, ok?" "I barely can breathe now...." "Your Misuiko is at the field" "So what, at the smelly field?" "She will be smelly soon" "So I don't have to go there to handle it yet" "Thanks for telling me" "Then go there to handle it or it will hinder my work" "She is not smelly yet" "However, go there soon!" "You idiot!" "Why are you so nervous?" "However smelly she gets she cannot compare to you" "OK, I won't butt into your business!" "Anyone in the country knows it" "So smelly!" "If I finish this" "I will go to the field then" "What the hell is that?" "Isn't that what you want?" "It's without measure" "Isn't that Shioya?" "Oh, Suzuba, long time no see" "Haven't seen you for a year, the girl is cute" "But her mother" "Tatsuhei's wife..." "I've heard about her." "So miserable..." "After her childbirth, she went out picking chestnuts and fell down from the cliff" "Get up!" "get some drink" "Has Tatsuhei gone to the hill to work?" "No, to the field." "I thought I met him at the western mountain on the way here" "Saw Tatsuhei?" "I maybe mistook him, as I was so far away" "Suzuba, my purpose coming here today is nothing else but.." "Isn't this salt?" "I've not made a decision to buy it" "Not for business" "It was Mr. Matayan of the neighbouring country who told me to send it to you" "The neighbouring country?" "I beg you to do me a favor for Tatsuhei's remarriage" "It's so cold" "The madam is coming from the neighbour country" "She is called Tama" "Just became a widow the day before yesterday" "She will come here after the 100 days of mourning" "She is 37, 8 years younger than you" "I needn't make a selection for my plight" "Smelly boy, don't come near me" "Risuke, don't come near him if he told you not to" "Kesakichi will inherit from Tatsuhei to become the master of the family" "Tatsuhei" "Did you go to the western mountain this morning?" "No" "Shioya said he saw you" "You are getting more and more like Ribei now" "He said he saw the master?" "It is impossible for a man who got lost 30 years ago to be still alive" "Oh, a mistake" "Don't cry" "Mum" "You really don't know about Dad's disappearance?" "It was when you were 15, and Risuke was 5" "Very bad harvest that year" "The girl who just gave birth was sold to Shioya" "and Ribei's mother and me both are 69" "That's the age to go to the mountaintop and bad things coming together, Ribei's very disappointing" "for failing to bring his mother to the mountaintop" "Well rules are rules, kindness is not the issue." "and he just felt himself running away so painful so disgraceful" "you are the same" "I am different, different from Dad of course" "Matsu, how many pubic hairs do you have?" "I don't know." "Let me count them out for you" "No, Kesakichi" "No" "I don't want it at such place" "bracken it doesn't matter" "I'll pick up twice quantity of bracken for you" "I'll pick up everything for you" "Pick up many many things for you" "Oh, so painful..." "Come to my house!" "Come to find how many teeth my mother has" "Tatsuhei, I don't mean this" "I'm just imitating your Kesakichi's song" "Is that Kesakichi?" "Yes" "Though don't know who is that, come helping me" "My son is a devil, he doesn't let me eat even kill me" "who is that outside?" "Dad, he's Neeko's Tatsuhei" "Oh." "I see" "He wanted to die last night" "He had done that once before" "We thought that he would go to the summit this winter because he's already 70" "So did your mother." "Kesakichi, are grandma's teeth ghost teeth?" "Wretch!" "she likes you so much" "No longer let you eat" "I envy you" "Why?" "I won't live for long but it isn't good either, to be like me, so healthy" "able to eat but nothing else" "I also want to come to the summit" "I don't want to die in my bed and be buried near there" "The result is same" "All our souls will come to the summit in the end" "All of us will meet at the summit together" "Really?" "Sure" "Your husband is also waiting for you" "Though I have no idea about my husband" "No one knows where Ribei went" "He only left his gun at the valley" "He died long ago though he was a bit thick" "but not a bad man" "I have no idea you are so wretched" "Wretchedness does not matter, but humiliation does" "Kinba is almost dead" "When will she die?" "Maybe in 1 or 2 days" "The woman will come in two months then mother could relax it doesn't matter whether she comes or not" "I don't want this woman." "If I would remarry my wife will look after Yuki" "I don't care." "What?" "Furthermore, we can't afford additional two people" "Wretch, don't eat" "Your brother will marry Ameya's Matsune" "Wretch, shut up!" "Is it too large?" "Not serious" "A great coffin!" "How about Kinba" "She just died" "Really?" "Hurry up" "Mum, still alive?" "Not yet, I got well after eating the baiqiu" "It's baiqiu" "Idiot" "Baby" "The harvest is bad this autumn" "The grass grows too quick" "Are you coming to worship" "Is this Tatsuhei's home?" "Aren't you Tama from the neighbouring village?" "Although I could worship there" "But they tell me to come here" "Because they said there are good things to eat here" "So I come here stealthily at midnight" "Oh, you must be hungry" "Baby" "Come in, quick" "Why are you there?" "You should come in early" "Because I'm alone, that's not good though brother said he would take me here" "He was in drink while worshiping" "Shioya said grandma was kind, told me come here early it's my duty to take you here that would be fine, I would follow you" "though I would tell Shioya" "I'll come to the summit soon" "It also will be OK later" "No, no, God will cry if I go early" "These trout were all caught by me" "Are you able to catch a trout?" "No one could catch more than me, in my home or village" "I know where they are" "I will tell you later" "You can eat all these things" "There are many sun-cured, too" "I go to call Tatsuhei" "Help yourself" "Only two?" "Don't tell anyone else, Risuke" "What did you pick up?" "Nothing" "Give me some" "There's nothing" "Give me" "This smelly boy, smell ugly" "You are also a farmhand, I'm a farmhand of your uncle's generation" "Don't be too exalted" "Beast!" "Eat slowly, call Tatsuhei now" "I'm of the age to come to the summit, my teeth all broken" "better than before" "so do I" "Reichu is moving, Reichu?" "He is greeting you" "Baby Shiro" "Baby, come here" "Shiro!" "don't move!" "freeze!" "Shiro!" "Shiro" "Aen!" "Aen!" "Aen, very efficient" "The snake has been done" "This new house has something strange, like a ghost" "There was a barn before near the doghouse and a farmhand lived in it" "He assaulted my daughter finally he was killed by father" "I was sick, haven't die when come to the mountain" "the farmhand that was killed by father haunts us now" "After I die" "you will serve as the one-night wife of the farmhands by turns" "One farmhand each night?" "Yes!" "then come to worship the God also let the serfs worship the God" "if you don't do this" "the farmhand will make trouble in this house forever" "Aen!" "it's your duty!" "you must do penance!" "I know, don't be anxious" "Screw up, I know" "I will do certain penance" "You are lying" "I'm not lying" "Who told you?" "The lord of the new house it was his last words last night to whom?" "Of course Aen" "Then why how you know?" "From Aen.." "I just passed by" "Wretch!" "you must have gone to tempt Shiro!" "Wretch!" "I didn't" "The stinky guy gets crazy, because too stinky" "He was abandoned by Shiro, he's mad" "Mad!" "mad!" "Beast!" "they have the impertinence to disdain me" "God, please let me cure the stinky sickness soon" "Let Aen's husband die soon, and.." "Wretch!" "you cheat me" "I know all the things that occurred yesterday" "You spied on brother and his wife?" "Did you seek?" "Are you talking about mother's teeth" "Teeth?" "Mother said don't tell anyone else" "I'm talking about Shiro at the new house" "Wretch, what about mother's teeth?" "Brother" "You know?" "Come here" "Let me give the guy a lesson" "Brother" "Always perpetrate a fraud" "Brother.... mother" "I like your teeth, like stone, solid and big" "I want to kill you" "If I go, what about you?" "Be law-abidng" "I'm a pig, in front of brother" "Yes, listen to me, all will be OK" "Don't you feel stinky?" "What will happen to stinky?" "I think mother doesn't care about my stench" "It seems as a sword" "It's raining" "The baby seems much bigger than before" "Will it be born?" "Next year." "Would the baby's face like me or its father?" "Like grandma" "Grandma said he would be premature" "What sin does a premature baby have?" "It is from procreating too young" "Grandma dislikes me" "She said I am like Arha in the song who is helpless" "Come to my home to eat tomorrow" "Really?" "We will limit one bowl per person from tonight" "Yes!" "Matsu, you are excellent in that aspect but are awful at making a fire" "I'm sorry every time" "Anyway, there are many in mother's home" "Penance to the mountain God" "What can I do to help them?" "Then don't go!" "The unborn child is so bothersome" "How can we prevent them from occuring?" "Everybody must make a decision quickly" "I want go to bed" "Everybody get up!" "Hurry up!" "Where are Tatsuhei and Kesakichi?" "They have gone" "Where?" "the rain-house?" "Your home, you have no need to go" "You go look after Yuki" "The sound heard just now is rain-house" "He had the impertinence to steal the beans harvested ten days ago" "I caught him" "Then appease the mountain God, follow the rule" "Go to search!" "Find!" "Find!" "It's a bit thick, it's in Ameya's potato field" "Less than half of this" "No wonder we harvest so few this year" "It's been picked back early" "Look, so many!" "Ameya's father had also sacrificed to the mountain God" "Forgive me!" "Because there are so many people in my home, we are hard up" "Many persons?" "Who sired them one by one?" "I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong" "Kesakichi!" "Kesakichi!" "Kesakichi!" "I beg you!" "Isn't Matsu your wife?" "this and that are two things" "Everyone's home is hard" "The daughter of Ameya has theft in her bloodline" "Two generations must be sacrificed to the mountain God" "Where's Aen?" "This time you could just apologize" "We must have a plan" "Aen's father died just now" "Everyone come to distribute" "The beans are good, let me eat some" "Don't simply eat, come to the mill" "Why?" "The food in the pot is just enough for one bowl per person" "Really?" "Winter will come" "The woman has come after all" "The food supply is enough for five months" "I hope so" "Is our food going to be enough for the winter?" "No, we must find a solution" "Otherwise I won't be able to sleep" "I don't care about him, he would steal again" "Then what do we do?" "That is why I called you to come to discuss" "We will gather at Makichan's home" "You also should go" "I will come to each house to summon them" "You are working hard" "We must make a decision tonight" "If we decide to eradicate Ameya's home" "We can't let Matsu escape" "You must realise this now." "But she was married here," "The baby in her womb belongs to Neeko's home" "That would not be reasonable." "Tatsuhei, it's because you are like this that others say you are soft like Ribei" "Who says?" "Who says I am like my father?" "Oh, painful..." "Let us discuss with grandma" "Let's gamble!" "tonight" "Really?" "Then divide into three part, is it ok?" "One would be washed out, is it ok?" "I take it" "Too many!" "too many!" "I'm so sorry" "It would be good if it's a girl" "A girl does not need to be killed, and could be sold" "Matsu, Matsu" "Hasn't Ameya eaten tonight?" "You bring these to them" "Tonight you should sleep there to look after them!" "Well" "Too hot!" "Tatsuhei" "Come quick" "Kesakichi had better not go" "Why?" "Don't ask why" "Does it taste good?" "Let me go!" "Help!" "No!" "Wait!" "Matsu" "Matsu" "Kesakichi" "Kesakichi" "No!" "Wait!" "Bastard!" "There's my baby in Matsu's womb" "Matsu" "Kesakichi" "Go back" "Grandma, where is the Ameya's daughter" "Where is Matsu!" "Arlue, don't mention anything about Ameya" "Go to sleep!" "quick" "Kesakichi, come in to warm yourself" "Grandma, you cheated me" "Kesakichi" "It was you who asked Matsu go back to Ameya" "Why?" "Why did you ask her go back?" "You killed her, grandma!" "You beast!" "You devil of a grandma" "Mum, why didn't you tell me?" "Mum" "I will go to the summit this winter" "My mother's home's grandma has gone to the summit" "I also would go, since the grandma has gone" "Living here is very hard" "I can meet Matsu at the summit" "Meet Matsu" "Never mind, the household is already reduced by one" "Her unborn child has also died" "We could get through this winter" "There might be another child born soon" "Idiot!" "Don't worship there" "Worship the Shinyashiki God later, quick!" "Bastard!" "put off your underwear" "Move up, quick" "Wrong!" "Not there. bastard" "There!" "Move your waist there" "The day before yesterday is Shouzo's turn, last night is Gen's turn" "We take turns from the west" "Then it will be my turn tonight" "Bastard" "Bastard" "Stinky guy!" "serve you right!" "You have been passed over." "so do you wife been killed, you could no longer wive a woman better than you, no wife" "you laugh at me, Harumatsu you look down on me, bastard well, I can't bear anymore, wretch!" "wretch!" "Harumatsu" "it is said Aen have abandoned you..." "I don't care about those things how can I lose sense because that?" "let you become a bridegroom" "is that Aen meet me?" "idiot!" "not she listen!" "only one night!" "no later really?" "when?" "won't be long but you must start with a clean slate don't play the field and bait Harumatsu like a fox only one night" "just like what I said last night bear only one night!" "what should we do if he killed Harumatsu?" "then we would be hard this winter what will happen if he plays the field you ought to know!" "prithee!" "only one night for him!" "so stinky, no money for request others and no potato it's whom stolen the potatos slinkingly" "though reluctant, can't you bear?" "you are so boring!" "I see because you abandoned Risuke he even has no mood to work" "Can't you bear only one night?" "even though he is stinky..." "I'm very sorry, but not him..." "I would die!" "But it was your late husband's last words" "Maybe he said it was all right to skip Risuke" "I went to the grave this morning to beg not to have to couple with that stinky guy" "Suddenly a butterfly as big as this arrived though it's autumn now." "A butterfly?" "Yes!" "fluttering there happily" "It seemed very happy" "So I come back reassured" "My nose is not so sensitive, I can't smell him" "though don't mind this" "Are you saying ok?" "Though I'm not unwilling" "I haven't been used for a long time ...." "Don't worry, it's his first time ...." "I will go tomorrow" "Tonight we could invite all the people of the mountain but it's too early now" "Go and call everyone together, quick" "Mum" "Hurry up" "Otherwise they will have gone out to work" "I saw Ribei" "Where?" "Just now at the grassland of the mountain" "I go to call every one" "you..." "Ribei" "It's the soul" "Now your soul could not be forgiven" "So you linger there" "I want to go to the summit" "I won't call you, idiot" "I went to hunt for a bear with father when I was only 15 and killed him here when I came back" "I said to father after considering" ""It's better to carry grandma to the mountain"" "And he said "What do you know?" and got angry suddenly" "We began to fight." "I killed him with my gun then laid his bones there" "Tatsuhei" "I liked Ribei, but he made me ashamed." "It was not you who killed him, but God" "Don't tell the others, understand?" "Tama, you'd better put out the fire" "Kesakichi, when finished there bring the feculent wine here" "Shake it well" "Tatsuhei, though it's early, go and wash" "Arlue, that's ok" "Tama, come here" "Grandma, wonderful!" "If you watch carefully during the day, you can see the trout playing close it stealthily in the night" "you have a try" "Tatsuhei told you to lend your body to Risuke, is that true?" "Don't do that, reject him" "Spread your hands" "Caught" "Yes, just like this" "Now I have taught you all the things" "Don't tell anyone else about this place" "You can only come here by yourself" "Though it's hard to go to the mountain, toilsome" "The wine is good, Suzu is so crackerjack" "You must obey the rules of the mountain" "1." "You must not talk on the way to the mountain" "2." "Don't let yourself be noticed by anyone when you leave home" "3." "The road to the mountain is the piedmont of the other side of the mountain" "Pass the winter-tree, climb over a second mountain, there will be a pool" "Walk around the pool three times, then walk over the ladder" "Make your way over a mountain there will be a ravine" "Cross the ravine, then proceed two miles and a half" "On your way there are seven bends, that is Seven-Valley" "When you pass through Seven-Valley you will arrive at the saddle back..." "From there is the road to the God" "There's a road to the God, but sometimes it is hard to see..." "The higher you climb, the better." "God is waiting for you there" "You mustn't look back while you go back from the mountain" "There's no need to go up to the mountain if you are unwilling" "You can also return from the saddleback." "Also don't let others know this" "I'll tell you what you ought to know" "Here" "It can be used if necessary" "What do you want to do?" "Tatsuhei" "Ba!" "Tie him up" "Do not want to go to the summit" "It would not be long" "We would meet at the summit" "For the sake of God, for son, you'd better go now" "Don't worry about home" "Dad!" "let's go home!" "It's a rabbit's tooth!" "it's a amulet" "Do you want to go back?" "Mum!" "are you tired?" "I don't want to, how about Mum?" "Our ancestors have gone to the summit for hundreds of years as we do now." "There will have been thousands of persons like you" "25 years from now I will go there too." "Kesakichi will carry me" "And another 25 years later Kesakichi must go too." "We have no means but this to survive." "Is the God waiting for you at the summit?" "If it's really there" "It ought to snow the way it says in the ballad." "Dad" "Dad!" "go to the summit!" "Snow" "Snow, it's starting to snow." "Mum!" "it is starting to snow" "Mum!" "it's so cold!" "Mum!" "you're very lucky, as it is snowing while you go to the summit" "Mum!" "it is really starting to snow" "It's so cold!" "It is just starting to snow" "Wonderful, are you hungry?" "What's the matter?" "Grandma is so lucky" "Just like in the ballad." "What a savory aroma!" "Let's all eat at home starting from tonight."