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With my mother on my back, now is the time to say goodbye to this world.
In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.Read moreLess
In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.
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In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Kinuyo TanakaOrin
Teiji TakahashiTatsuhei
Yūko MochizukiTamayan
Seiji MiyaguchiMatayan
Yūnosuke ItōMatayan's sonKen Mitsuda
Ken MitsudaTeruyan
Danko IchikawaKesakichiKeiko Ogasawara
Keiko OgasawaraMatsu-yan
Eijirō TōnoMessenger
Kō NishimuraOne of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)Katsuyuki Hattori
Katsuyuki HattoriTatsuhei's son (uncredited)
Tokuji KobayashiOne of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Director of Photography
- Hiroshi Kusuda
- Editor
- Yoshi Sugihara
- Original Music Composer
- Matsunosuke Nozawa
- Producer
- Ryuzo Otani
- Producer
- Masaharu Kokaji
- Screenplay
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Original Music Composer
- Kineya Rokuzaemon XIV