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Writers:
Shohei Imamura (screenplay)
Shichirô Fukazawa (novel)
Release Date:
29 April 1983 (Japan) more
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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
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9 wins & 8 nominations more
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One of my five favorite movies ever - What is uniquely human more (21 total)
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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Also Known As:
Ballad of Narayama (International: English title)
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130 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Hong Kong:III | France:Unrated | Australia:R | UK:18 | Argentina:13 | South Korea:18
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Remake of Narayama bushiko (1958) more
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Oya wo nemurasu komori uta more
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With beautiful photography and sensitive, elegant acting, this is perhaps the best exploration of what it means to be human. As usual, Shohei Imamura draws direct parallels between the basic drives & instincts (hunger, greed, lust, anger, envy) of people and other animals. I have friends who have walked out of this movie because they found these comparisons so depressing when shown in the desperately poor rural Japan during the late 19th century. What they missed was the core intelligence, caring, self sacrifice, clear thinking and love that enabled that community, and by extension the human race, to survive such difficult times.
This sympathetic portrayal of a family in a rural village is the best of ten films I have seen from Imamura, with an epic scale of Akira Kurosawa and all of the subtlety of Ozu.