| The Ballad of Narayama | |
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| Directed by | Shōhei Imamura |
| Written by | Shōhei Imamura |
| Based on | 楢山節考 (Narayama-bushi Kō) by Shichirō Fukazawa |
| Produced by | Goro Kusakabe Jiro Tomoda |
| Starring | Ken Ogata Sumiko Sakamoto Takejo Aki Tonpei Hidari Seiji Kurasaki Kaoru Shimamori Ryutaro Tatsumi Junko Takada Nijiko Kiyokawa Mitsuko Baisho |
| Cinematography | Masao Tochizawa |
| Edited by | Hajime Okayasu |
| Music by | Shin’ichirō Ikebe |
| Distributed by | Toei Co. Ltd. Umbrella Entertainment |
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Running time | 130 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | ¥1.79 billion (Japan) 23.7 million tickets (worldwide) |
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama Bushikō) is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin, Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa. It is an adaptation of the book Narayama bushikō by Shichirō Fukazawa[1] and slightly inspired by the 1958 film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. Both films explore the legendary practice of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die. Imamura's film won the Palme d'Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
- ^ O’Donoghue, Darragh (February 2013). "Ballad of Narayama". Cinémathèque Annotations on Film (66). Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ "Narayama-Bushi-Ko". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 19 August 2016.