The ballad of Narayama

The ballad of Narayama

DVD - 2013

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.

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Subjects
Older people > Japan > Drama.
Starvation > Drama.
Sacrifice > Drama.
Foreign films > Japan.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Genres
Feature films
Foreign films
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection [2013]
Language
Japanese
English
Other Authors
Keisuke Kinoshita, 1912-1998 (film director), Masaharu Kokaji (film producer), Rokuzaemon Kineya, 1900-1981 (composer expression), Matsunosuke Nozawa (actor), Kinuyo Tanaka, 1909-1977 (-), Teiji Takahashi, 1926-1959, Yuko Mochizuki, 1917-1977, Ennosuke Ichikawa, 1939-, Seiji Miyaguchi, 1913-1985, Yūnosuke Ito, Ken Mitsuda, 1912-1997, Eijirō Tōno, 1907-1994, Shichirō Fukasawa, 1914-1987
Edition
DVD special edition ; DVD edition
Item Description
Based on the novel, Narayamabushi kō, by Shichirō Fukazawa.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
Special features: trailer and teaser ; booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Blu-ray DVD, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; PCM mono.
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Cinematography, Hiroshi Kusuda ; editor, Yoshi Sugihara ; music, Rokuzaemon Kineya, Matsunosuke Nozawa.
ISBN
9781604656879
Contents unavailable.

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