Fresh
Imamura's rough sexual humor is still in evidence, but now it has taken on a dark tone: to make love is to flirt with death.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
The Ballad of Narayama
Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…
1983 · 2h 10m · NOT RATED
Drama
Directed by
Shōhei Imamura
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Shōhei Imamura Director
- Ken Ogata as Tatsuhei
- Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin
- Tonpei Hidari as Risuke
- Aki Takejo as Tamayan (as Aki Takejô)
- Shoichi Ozawa as Katsuzô (as Shôichi Ozawa)
- Fujio Tokita as Jinsaku
- Sanshō Shinsui as Zeniya no Tadayan
- Seiji Kurasaki as Kesakichi
- Junko Takada as Matsuyan
- Taiji Tonoyama as Teruyan
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