The Ballad of Narayama

June. 01,1958      
Rating:
7.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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?

Kinuyo Tanaka as  Orin
Teiji Takahashi as  Tatsuhei
Yūko Mochizuki as  Tamayan
Seiji Miyaguchi as  Matayan
Yūnosuke Itō as  Matayan's son
Danko Ichikawa as  Kesakichi
Eijirō Tōno as  Messenger
Kō Nishimura as  One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
Tokuji Kobayashi as  One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)
Masao Oda as  One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)

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