The Ballad of Narayama
Narayama bushikô
With my mother on my back, now is the time to say goodbye to this world.
A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka
Orin
Teiji Takahashi
Tatsuhei
Yûko Mochizuki
Tamayan
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Danko Ichikawa
Kesakichi
Seiji Miyaguchi
Mata-yan
Yūnosuke Itō
Matayan's son
Eijirō Tōno
Messenger
Ken Mitsuda
Teruyan
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Keiko Ogasawara
Matsu-yan
Masao Oda
Villager
Chûji Kinoshita
Composer
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Matsunosuke Nozawa
Composer
Hiroshi Kusuda
Cinematographer
