The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Narayama bushikô
Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…
130 min
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.
- Release date
- April 29, 1983
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Shinichirô Ikebe
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Cast
- Ken Ogata as Tatsuhei
- Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin
- Tonpei Hidari as Risuke
- Aki Takejô as Tamayan
- Shōichi Ozawa as Katsuzô
- Fujio Tokita as Jinsaku
- Sanshô Shinsui as Zeniya no Tadayan
- Seiji Kurasaki as Kesakichi
- Junko Takada as Matsuyan
- Mitsuko Baishō as Oei
- Taiji Tonoyama as Teruyan
- Ben Hiura as Yakimatsu
- Casey Takamine as Arayashiki
- Nenji Kobayashi as Tsune
- Nijiko Kiyokawa as Okane
- Akio Yokoyama as Amaya
- Kansai Eto as Kinyan
- Satoko Iwasaki as Sugiyan
- Norihei Miki as Shioya
- Ryûtarô Tatsumi as Matayan
Crew
- Shōhei Imamura · Director
- Shōhei Imamura · Writer
- Shichirô Fukazawa · Writer
- Gorô Kusakabe · Producer
- Jirô Tomoda · Producer
- Shinichirô Ikebe · Composer
- Hiroshi Kanazawa · Cinematographer
- Shigeru Komatsubara · Cinematographer
- Masao Tochizawa · Cinematographer
- Toshihiko Kojima · Editor
- Fusako Matsumoto · Editor
- Hajime Okayasu · Editor
- Yoshiko Onodera · Editor
- Gorô Kusakabe · Production designer