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Overview

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7.7/10   2,030 votes
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Director:
Shohei Imamura
Writers:
Shohei Imamura (screenplay)
Shichirô Fukazawa (novel)
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Release Date:
29 April 1983 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Only time could change the cruelty of tradition ... only their Love could survive it ... more
Plot:
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 synopsis
Awards:
9 wins & 8 nominations more
User Comments:
Above the normally expected motion picture role more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ken Ogata ... Tatsuhei
Sumiko Sakamoto ... Orin
Tonpei Hidari ... Risuke
Aki Takejo ... Tamayan (as Aki Takejô)
Shoichi Ozawa ... Katsuzô (as Shôichi Ozawa)
Fujio Tokita ... Jinsaku
Sanshô Shinsui ... Zeniya no Tadayan
Seiji Kurasaki ... Kesakichi
Junko Takada ... Matsuyan
Mitsuko Baisho ... Oei (as Mitsuko Baishô)
Taiji Tonoyama ... Teruyan
Casey Takamine ... Arayashiki (as Kêshi Takamine)
Nenji Kobayashi ... Tsune
Nijiko Kiyokawa ... Okane
Akio Yokoyama ... Amaya
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ballad of Narayama (International: English title)
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Runtime:
130 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Itoigawa, Niigata, Japan more
Company:
Toei Company more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Remake of Narayama bushiko (1958) more
Soundtrack:
Oya wo nemurasu komori uta more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Above the normally expected motion picture role, 16 December 2006
10/10
Author: vivera from Mozirje, Slovenija

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!

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