The Ballad of Narayama Narayama bushi-ko

Shohei Imamura / Japan / 1983 / 130 min / Japanese

English Subtitles. A snow-covered village in the Shinshu Mountains. Orin is sixty-nine years old, but she is still healthy and strong – even her teeth are still intact. But winter is approaching, when she will have to leave her family and go to Mount Narayama. When she turns seventy, her eldest son will, according to tradition, carry her to the top of the mountain and leave her there to die...

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