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Movie · 1983

The Ballad of Narayama

Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…

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Grim matter of fact Ritual duty over life Ancestral violence Fatalism Spare bleak beauty Moral dread

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Release
1983
Runtime
130 min

Synopsis

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

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