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The Ballad of Narayama

Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…

7.5 average rating
★★★★★
7.5
Japanese / 130 MIN. / 1983

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Ken OgataSumiko SakamotoTonpei HidariAki TakejoShoichi OzawaFujio TokitaSanshō ShinsuiSeiji KurasakiJunko TakadaMitsuko BaishoTaiji TonoyamaBen HiuraCasey TakamineNenji KobayashiNijiko KiyokawaAkio YokoyamaKaoru ShimamoriYukie ShimuraMasami OkamotoKansai EtoSatoko IwasakiHideo HasegawaKenji MuraseSayaka NakamaruAzumi NiwaKosei SatoNorihei MikiRyūtarō Tatsumi

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