The Ballad Of Narayama (1958) Criterion Collection
The Ballad Of Narayama (1958) Criterion Collection
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Language: Japanese | Subtitle: English Included | 1h 38mn | 469.81MB | 3% Recovery
Genre: Drama | 6 wins & 1 nomination.
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10 (570 users)
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Language: Japanese | Subtitle: English Included | 1h 38mn | 469.81MB | 3% Recovery
Genre: Drama | 6 wins & 1 nomination.
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10 (570 users)
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
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?
Criterion Collection #645 Synopsis: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. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin (Kinuyo Tanaka), a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant color and widescreen, The Ballad of Narayama is a stylish and vividly formal work from Japan’s cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita.Screenshots:
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