Ken Ogata

Sumiko Sakamoto

Tonpei Hidari

Aki Takejo

Shoichi Ozawa

Fujio Tokita

Sanshô Shinsui

Seiji Kurasaki

Junko Takada

Taiji Tonoyama

Casey Takamine

Nenji Kobayashi

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Akio Yokoyama

Mitsuko Baisho

Shōhei Imamura

Shichirō Fukazawa

Gorô Kusakabe

Senki Nakamura

Mitsuto Washizawa

Seiko Igawa

Zenichirô Ishikawa

Takeshi Matsuo

Yōichi Mitsuoka

Tomoe Ookawa

Shunsaku Ikehata

Nobuaki Murooka

Kunio Takeshige

Takashi Tsukinoki

Kenichi Benitani

Toshio Nakano

Tatsuo Tsukamoto

Yoshio Kojima

Shinichirô Ikebe

Jirô Tomoda

Hiroshi Kanazawa

Shigeru Komatsubara

Masao Tochizawa

Hisao Inagaki

Tadataka Yoshino

Kyoto Isho

Toshihiko Kojima

Fusako Matsumoto

Hajime Okayasu

Yoshiko Onodera

Masahito Watanabe

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The Ballad of Narayama

The short review is "life's a bitch, then you die" LOL, that doesn't do this absolutely brilliant film any justice, though.

Imamura has crafted a rather sardonic, brutally honest mirror of humans. Like humans, it is both hard to watch, and simultaneously invokes emapthy. Few directors every achieve this level of mastery of the audience's emotions. It holds a well-deserved Palme d'Or.

The legend upon which the movie is based is called Ubasute (姥捨て) in Japanese, or "abandoning an old woman". There is no evidence of it ever being a common practice, though it's a persistent myth in Japan. One of the very plain statements of the director, is that Ubasute reflects the way contemporary Western culture treats it's elderly. In the USA, at least, nursing homes substitute for Narayama mountain.

THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (Masters of Cinema) Trailer

The Ballad of Narayama

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