The Ballad Of Narayama

This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the...

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Corporate Author:	Image Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors:	Kinoshita, Keisuke, 1912-1998, Fukasawa, Shichirō, 1914-1987, Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977, Takahashi, Teiji, 1926-1959, Mochizuki, Yuko, 1917-1977
Format:	Videos DVD
Language:	Japanese English
Published:	[United States] : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2013]
Series:	Criterion collection
Subjects:	Older people > Japan > Drama. Starvation > Drama. Sacrifice > Drama. Feature films. Melodramas (Motion pictures) Foreign films > Japan.
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