The Ballad of Narayama 1958
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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.
- Released: 1958-06-01
- Runtime: 98 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yūko Mochizuki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yūnosuke Itō
- Director: Shichirō Fukazawa, Shûzô Horikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Hisao Ōno, Hiroshi Kusuda
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- Source: CWR-CRB
