The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Movie
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?
Directed By : Keisuke Kinoshita
Genres : Drama
Status : Released
Released : Jun 1, 1958
Length : 98 minutes
Cast
Crew
- Novel : Shichirō Fukazawa
- Sound Mixer : Shûzô Horikawa
- Director : Keisuke Kinoshita
- Sound Recordist : Hisao Ōno
- Editor : Yoshi Sugihara
- Set Decoration : Mototsugu Komaki
- Producer : Masaharu Kokaji
- Original Music Composer : Matsunosuke Nozawa
- Art Direction : Chiyoo Umeda
- Director of Photography : Hiroshi Kusuda
- Assistant Director : Yoshikazu Ōtsuki
- Costume Design : Toshikazu Sugiyama
- Set Designer : Genzô Furumiya
- Producer : Ryuzo Otani
- Production Design : Kisaku Ito
- Screenplay : Keisuke Kinoshita
- Sound Assistant : Hideo Nishizaki
- Original Music Composer : Kineya Rokuzaemon XIV
- Music Consultant : Ishun Endō