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Release Date:
29 April 1983 (Japan) moreTagline:
Only time could change the cruelty of tradition ... only their Love could survive it ... morePlot:
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die... more | add synopsisAwards:
9 wins & 8 nominations moreUser Comments:
Above the normally expected motion picture role moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ken Ogata | ... | Tatsuhei |
| Sumiko Sakamoto | ... | Orin, Tatsuhei's mother |
| Aki Takejo | ... | Tamayan, Tatsuhei's wife |
| Tonpei Hidari | ... | Tatsuhei's brother |
| Seiji Kurasaki | ... | Kesakichi, older son |
| Kaoru Shimamori | ... | Tomekichi, younger son |
| Ryutaro Tatsumi | ... | Matayan, the old neighbor |
| Junko Takada | ... | Matsu |
| Nijiko Kiyokawa | ... | Okane |
| Mitsuko Baisho | ... | Oei |
| Shoichi Ozawa | ... | Katsuzo |
| Sanshô Shinsui | ... | Tadayan |
| Norihei Miki | ... | Old salt dealer |
| Akio Yokoyama | ... | Amaya |
| Sachie Shimura | ... | Amaya's wife |
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When a person visits cinema to see a movie, he/she usually expects to see filmed version of some story, whatever the film story shall be. So, let's go and see the Narajama story! Well, Legend of Narajama to me was much more than that. It's expressiveness is above the term "story", "film" etc. It is one o the most incredible things I have seen in my life (beside Rodin's Kiss in his Paris museum, and Trier's Dancer in the dark and few more exceptional works of ... let's use the word "art"). Shockingly naturalizing presentation of way of living in rural part of Japan, simpleness of characters' acceptance of facts of life (giving life for others' survival), nativeness of roles are probably main attributes.
I've seen it in the year 1984/85, fortunate me, for until tonight's IMDb's Narajama appearance to me this movie has been totally gone.
Highly recommended!