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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Streaming Video (via Kanopy) |
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| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | Japanese |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Criterion Collection,
1958.
Kanopy Streaming, 2021. |
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| Summary: | 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 (Kinuyo Tanaka), a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant color and widescreen, THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA is a stylish and vividly formal work from Japan's cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Access: | CU Boulder license expires: 1/7/2025. |
| Participant or Performer: | Danshi Ichikawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki |
| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1958. |