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The Ballad of Narayama (1958) [N/A]

Release Date:
June 1, 1958

Original Title:
楢山節考

Alternate Titles:
A Balada de Narayama
Ballad of Narayama
Balladen om Narayama
La balada de Narayama
La leggenda di Narayama
Narayama bushikô
the ballad.of narayama

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Shochiku

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 98

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Art Direction:
Chiyoo Umeda

Assistant Director:
Yoshikazu Ōtsuki

Costume Design:
Toshikazu Sugiyama

Director:
Keisuke Kinoshita

Director of Photography:
Hiroshi Kusuda

Editor:
Yoshi Sugihara

Novel:
Shichirō Fukazawa

Original Music Composer:
Chūji Kinoshita
Matsunosuke Nozawa

Producer:
Masaharu Kokaji
Ryuzo Otani

Production Design:
Kisaku Ito

Set Decoration:
Mototsugu Komaki

Set Designer:
Genzô Furumiya

Sound Mixer:
Shûzô Horikawa

Sound Recordist:
Hisao Ōno
Hideo Nishizaki

Writer:
Keisuke Kinoshita

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