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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?
Movie rating: 7.8 / 10 (3360)
Directed by: Keisuke Kinoshita - Shichiro Fukazawa
Writer credits: Shichirô Fukazawa - Keisuke Kinoshita
Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka - Teiji Takahashi - Yûko Mochizuki - Danko Ichikawa - Keiko Ogasawara
AKA: Narayama bushikô, Ballad of Narayama, ballade de narayama 1958, La ballade de Narayama
