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Directed by | Keisuke Kinoshita |
Written by | Keisuke Kinoshita |
Based on | Narayama-bushi kō by Shichirō Fukazawa |
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Cinematography | Hiroyuki Kusuda |
Edited by | Yoshi Sugihara |
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Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
The Ballad of Narayama (Japanese: 楢山節考, Hepburn: Narayama-bushi Kō) is a 1958 Japanese historical drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It is based on the 1956 novella of the same name by Shichirō Fukazawa.[1][2][3] The film explores the legendary practice of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die.