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Synopsis: In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Keisuke Kinoshita
Production: Criterion Collection
  6 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1958
98 min
59 Views


I have no idea

you are so wretched

Wretchedness does not matter, but humiliation does

Kinba is almost dead

When will she die?

Maybe in 1 or 2 days

The woman will come in two months

then mother could relax

it doesn't matter whether she comes or not

I don't want this woman. If I would remarry

my wife will look after Yuki

I don't care.

What?

Furthermore, we can't afford additional two people

Wretch, don't eat

Your brother will marry Ameya's Matsune

Wretch, shut up!

Is it too large?

Not serious

A great coffin!

How about Kinba

She just died

Really? Hurry up

Mum, still alive?

Not yet, I got well after eating the baiqiu

It's baiqiu

Idiot

Baby

The harvest is bad this autumn

The grass grows too quick

Are you coming to worship

Is this Tatsuhei's home?

Aren't you Tama from the neighbouring village?

Although I could worship there

But they tell me to come here

Because they said there are good things to eat here

So I come here stealthily at midnight

Oh, you must be hungry

Baby

Come in, quick

Why are you there?

You should come in early

Because I'm alone, that's not good

though brother said he would take me here

He was in drink while worshiping

Shioya said grandma was kind, told me come here early

it's my duty to take you here

that would be fine, I would follow you

though I would tell Shioya

I'll come to the summit soon

It also will be OK later

No, no, God will cry if I go early

These trout were all caught by me

Are you able to catch a trout?

No one could catch more than me, in my home or village

I know where they are

I will tell you later

You can eat all these things

There are many sun-cured, too

I go to call Tatsuhei

Help yourself

Only two?

Don't tell anyone else, Risuke

What did you pick up?

Nothing

Give me some

There's nothing

Give me

This smelly boy, smell ugly

You are also a farmhand, I'm a farmhand of your uncle's generation

Don't be too exalted

Beast!

Eat slowly, call Tatsuhei now

I'm of the age to come to the summit, my teeth all broken

better than before

so do I

Reichu is moving, Reichu?

He is greeting you

Baby Shiro

Baby, come here

Shiro! don't move! freeze! Shiro!

Shiro

Aen! Aen!

Aen, very efficient

The snake has been done

This new house has something strange, like a ghost

There was a barn before near the doghouse

and a farmhand lived in it

He assaulted my daughter

finally he was killed by father

I was sick, haven't die when come to the mountain

the farmhand that was killed by father haunts us now

After I die

you will serve as the one-night wife of the farmhands by turns

One farmhand each night?

Yes! then come to worship the God

also let the farmhands worship the God

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