The Ballad of Narayama
"With my mother on my back, now is the time to say goodbye to this world."
1958-06-01
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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.
Novel
Shichirō Fukazawa
Sound Mixer
Shûzô Horikawa
Director
Keisuke Kinoshita
Sound Recordist
Hisao Ōno
Art Direction
Chiyoo Umeda
Director of Photography
Hiroshi Kusuda
family relationships dying traditions social convention
Status
ReleasedCountries
- Japan
Companies
- Shochiku
