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
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300 |a 1 videodisc (98 min.) :  |b sd., col. ;  |c 4 3/4 in. +  |e 1 insert. 
490 1 |a Criterion collection 
538 |a DVD, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; PCM mono. 
546 |a Japanese dialogue; English subtitles. 
500 |a Title from web page. 
511 1 |a Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki. 
500 |a Based on the novel, Narayamabushi kō, by Shichirō Fukazawa. 
500 |a Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. 
521 8 |a Not rated. 
520 |a 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 center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. 
500 |a Special features: trailer and teaser ; booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp. 
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650 0 |a Sacrifice  |v Drama. 
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655 7 |a Foreign films  |z Japan. 
700 1 |a Kinoshita, Keisuke,  |d 1912-1998. 
700 1 |a Fukasawa, Shichirō,  |d 1914-1987.  |t Narayamabushi kō. 
700 1 |a Tanaka, Kinuyo,  |d 1909-1977. 
700 1 |a Takahashi, Teiji,  |d 1926-1959. 
700 1 |a Mochizuki, Yuko,  |d 1917-1977. 
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