DVD
The ballad of Narayama = Narayama bushikô
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In Japanese, with English subtitles.
Performers
Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Seiji Miyaguchi.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 minutes) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged ; color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Audience
Not rated.
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, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Shichiro Fukazawa.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
Special features: New 2K digital master from the 2011 restoration ; teaser and trailer ; new English subtitle translation.