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 c...

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Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Streaming Video (via Kanopy)
Other Authors:	Ichikawa, Danshi (Actor), Tanaka, Kinuyo (Actor), Takahashi, Teiji (Actor), Mochizuki, Yuko (Actor)
Format:	Electronic Video
Language:	Japanese
Published:	[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Criterion Collection, 1958. Kanopy Streaming, 2021.
Subjects:	Motion pictures, Japanese. Foreign films. Drama. Motion pictures. Feature films.