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Title The Ballad of Narayama
Published The Criterion Collection, 1958
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): .flv file, sound
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
Notes Title from title frames
Film
In Process Record
Performer Danshi Ichikawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki
Event Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1958
Notes In English
Subject Motion pictures, Japanese.
Foreign films.
Drama.
Motion pictures.
plays (performing arts compositions)
Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Kinoshita, Keisuke, film director
Ichikawa, Danshi, actor
Tanaka, Kinuyo, actor
Takahashi, Teiji, actor
Mochizuki, Yuko, actor
The Criterion Collection (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm)