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The Ballad of Narayama
(1983)
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Ken Ogata | ... |
Tatsuhei
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Sumiko Sakamoto | ... |
Orin
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Tonpei Hidari | ... |
Risuke
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Aki Takejô | ... |
Tamayan
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Shôichi Ozawa | ... |
Katsuzô
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Fujio Tokita | ... |
Jinsaku
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Sanshô Shinsui | ... |
Zeniya no Tadayan
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Seiji Kurasaki | ... |
Kesakichi
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Junko Takada | ... |
Matsuyan
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Mitsuko Baishô | ... |
Oei
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Taiji Tonoyama | ... |
Teruyan
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Casey Takamine | ... |
Arayashiki
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Nenji Kobayashi | ... |
Tsune
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Nijiko Kiyokawa | ... |
Okane
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Akio Yokoyama | ... |
Amaya
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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 he or she 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. Written by Mattias Thuresson
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29 April 1983 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
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Performed by Sumiko Sakamoto
Courtesy of Radio City Records
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"Oya wo nemurasu komori uta"Performed by Sumiko Sakamoto
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With beautiful photography and sensitive, elegant acting, this is perhaps the best exploration of what it means to be human. As usual, Shohei Imamura draws direct parallels between the basic drives & instincts (hunger, greed, lust, anger, envy) of people and other animals. I have friends who have walked out of this movie because they found these comparisons so depressing when shown in the desperately poor rural Japan during the late 19th century. What they missed was the core intelligence, caring, self sacrifice, clear thinking and love that enabled that community, and by extension the human race, to survive such difficult times.
This sympathetic portrayal of a family in a rural village is the best of ten films I have seen from Imamura, with an epic scale of Akira Kurosawa and all of the subtlety of Ozu.