The Ballad of Narayama

7.5

Release Date: 1958-06-01

Drama

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?

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CASTS

Kinuyo Tanaka

Orin

Teiji Takahashi

Tatsuhei

Yūko Mochizuki

Tamayan

Seiji Miyaguchi

Matayan

Yūnosuke Itō

Matayan's son

Danko Ichikawa

Kesakichi

Eijirō Tōno

Messenger

Kō Nishimura

One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)

Tokuji Kobayashi

One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)

Masao Oda

One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)

THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (1958) Trailer | Director: Keisuke Kinoshita

The Ballad of Narayama - Trailer

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