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  1. Mar 7, 2013 · “The Ballad of Narayama” is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens up between its origins in the kabuki style and its subject of starvation in a mountain village!

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  2. The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama Bushikō) is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin, Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa. It is an adaptation of the book Narayama bushikō by Shichirō Fukazawa [1] and slightly inspired by the 1958 film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.

  3. The Ballad of Narayama: Directed by Shôhei Imamura. With Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejô. In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die.

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    • Drama
    • Shôhei Imamura
    • 1983-04-29
  4. This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die.

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  5. A 69-year-old Japanese widow (Kinuyo Tanaka) settles her life and then, by custom, climbs a mountain to die.

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    • Kinuyo Tanaka
    • Keisuke Kinoshita
    • Drama
  6. Jul 31, 2020 · Shôhei Imamura directed The Ballad of Narayama in 1983. It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, and became an instant film classic. The most brutal ballad in the history of Japanese cinema!

  7. 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.

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