The Ballad of Narayama

Synopsis

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?

Main Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

Orin

Age : 67 | Popularity : 6%

Teiji Takahashi

Tatsuhei

Age : 33 | Popularity : 5%

Yūko Mochizuki

Tamayan

Age : 60 | Popularity : 3%

Seiji Miyaguchi

Matayan

Age : 71 | Popularity : 16%

Yūnosuke Itō

Matayan's son

Age : 60 | Popularity : 11%

Ken Mitsuda

Teruyan

Age : 95 | Popularity : 5%

Danko Ichikawa

Kesakichi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Keiko Ogasawara

Matsu-yan

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Novel	Shichirō Fukazawa
	Writer	Keisuke Kinoshita
Sound	Sound Recordist	Hideo Nishizaki Hisao Ôno
	Original Music Composer	Chūji Kinoshita Matsunosuke Nozawa
	Sound Mixer	Shûzô Horikawa
Directing	Director	Keisuke Kinoshita
	Assistant Director	Yoshikazu Ōtsuki
Editing	Editor	Yoshi Sugihara
Camera	Director of Photography	Hiroshi Kusuda
Art	Art Direction	Chiyoo Umeda
	Production Design	Kisaku Ito
	Set Decoration	Mototsugu Komaki
	Set Designer	Genzô Furumiya
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Toshikazu Sugiyama
Production	Producer	Masaharu Kokaji Ryuzo Otani
Department	Role	Name

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