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Release Date:
April 29, 1983
Original Title:
楢山節考
Alternate Titles:
Balladen om Narayama
De Ballade van Narayama
Narayama bushikō
Narayama-bushi kô
Легенда о Нарайяме
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Toei Company
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
AU: R 18+ ES: 12 FR: TP GB: PG|15 KR: 18 NL: 6 PT: M/16
Runtime: 130
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. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
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Art Direction:
Hisao Inagaki
Tadataka Yoshino
Assistant Director:
Shunsaku Ikehata
Nobuaki Murooka
Kunio Takeshige
Takashi Tsukinoki
Assistant Sound Editor:
Toshio Nakano
Tatsuo Tsukamoto
Costume Design:
Kyoto Isho
Director:
Shōhei Imamura
Director of Photography:
Hiroshi Kanazawa
Shigeru Komatsubara
Masao Tochizawa
Editor:
Toshihiko Kojima
Fusako Matsumoto
Hajime Okayasu
Yoshiko Onodera
Masahito Watanabe
Hairstylist:
Zenichirô Ishikawa
Tomoe Ookawa
Key Hair Stylist:
Takeshi Matsuo
Yōichi Mitsuoka
Makeup Artist:
Seiko Igawa
Novel:
Shichirō Fukazawa
Original Music Composer:
Shinichirô Ikebe
Producer:
Jirô Tomoda
Production Design:
Gorô Kusakabe
Screenplay:
Shōhei Imamura
Set Decoration:
Senki Nakamura
Mitsuto Washizawa
Sound:
Kenichi Benitani
Special Effects:
Yoshio Kojima
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