Narayama bushikô

1958 [JAPANESE]

Drama

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.8/10 10 4192 4.2K

family relationships dying traditions social convention

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Plot summary

In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.

Director

Keisuke Kinoshita Photo
Keisuke Kinoshita

Top cast

Masao Oda Photo
Masao Oda as One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners
Danko Ichikawa Photo
Danko Ichikawa as Kesakichi
Eijirô Tôno Photo
Eijirô Tôno as Messenger
Isao Suenaga Photo
Isao Suenaga as Villager
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904.1 MB
1280*536
Japanese 2.0
Not Rated
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 1
1.64 GB
1920*804
Japanese 2.0
Not Rated
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Christopher B 9 / 10

A brilliant and methodically made and enacted Japanese

A brilliant and methodically made and enacted Japanese classic. This was also the last of the "Great Films" in the great Roger Ebert's film reviews section. The film is one of sadness and the ending of life, an era that will lead to new beginnings hopefully. I believe it will, like the film portrays, mean that Mr. Ebert is in a better place now.
Reviewed by william d 4 / 10

This turned out to be a disappointment. It's

This turned out to be a disappointment. It's a series of vignettes of peasants living in a hardscrabble mountain village without any real cohesion to the story. The film makers intersperse film of animals mating, giving birth and devouring each other in an attempt, I guess, to relate this to the primal lives of the peasants. I only found the last fifteen minutes or so to be of any interest.
Reviewed by Parker E 7 / 10

The Ballad of Narayama is a sad, funny

The Ballad of Narayama is a sad, funny, and brutal look into the normal life of a small village in Japan. Being afraid of death is normal. Accepting it and embracing it when you get old is also normal. But it's also sad and uncomfortable regarding death. The Ballad of Narayama treats death with respect and care. It's pretty wild to think that traditions of walking into a forest and dying were normal when your usefulness ran out. Superstition is a dangerous thing, especially when you have perfect teeth at 70 in Edo Japan.
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