Drama
The Ballad of Narayama
Avg rating 8.2 / My rating TBC
1983 · Directed by Shōhei Imamura · With Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
Film info
- Runtime
- 2h 10m · 130 min
- IMDb
- 7.8 / 10 (9,789 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 94% (critics)
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (audience, 212 votes)
- Trailer
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About this film
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
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