The Ballad of Narayama
Film1983130 min7.5/10 on TMDB
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Ken OgataTatsuhei
Sumiko SakamotoOrin
Tonpei HidariRisuke
Aki TakejoTamayan
Shoichi OzawaKatsuzô
Fujio TokitaJinsaku
Sanshō ShinsuiZeniya Tadayan
Seiji KurasakiKesakichi
Junko TakadaMatsuyan
Mitsuko Baisho
Taiji TonoyamaTeruyan
Ben HiuraYakimatsuExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Shōhei Imamura
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Director of Photography
- Masao Tochizawa
- Producer
- Jirô Tomoda
- Original Music Composer
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Editor
- Hajime Okayasu
- Editor
- Fusako Matsumoto
- Editor
- Toshihiko Kojima
- Editor
- Yoshiko Onodera
- Editor
- Masahito Watanabe