Director
Shôhei Imamura
Cast
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
Edition 1998
130'
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1983
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Mystery, Drama, Family
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
Japanese
It was the law of the village that when a person became seventy years old, they must go to the top of the mountains and stay there for the rest of their lives and wait till death comes. Orin is sixty-nine and before she goes she must find her widowed son a new wife. Then, in the late autumn, her son must take her to the mountains. She was resigned to her fate, but her son is torn in grief as he carries his mother to the summit. Returning to the village, now covered with snow, he suddenly realises that life still goes on regardless of the hardships one must face. (Shohei Imamura).
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Credits
Directors
Shôhei Imamura
Cast
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
Scenario
Shôhei Imamura, Shichirô Fukazawa
Director of Photography
Masao Tochizawa
Editors
Toshihiko Kojima, Hajime Okayasu
Producers
Jirô Tomoda, Gorô Kusakabe
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Dialogue
Japanese
Countries of production
Japan
Screenplay based on
"Narayama bushikō" (Shichirō Fukazawa)
Year
1983
Filmography
Shôhei Imamura
Stolen Desire (1958), Nishi Ginza Station (1958), Endless Desire (1958), My Second Brother (1959), Pigs and Battleships (1961), The Insect Woman (1963), Intentions of Murder (1964), The Pornographers (1966), A Man Vanishes (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970), Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Why Not? (1981), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Zegen (1987), Black Rain (1989), The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), September 11 (2002)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm