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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


if you don't do this

the farmhand will make trouble in this house forever

Aen! it's your duty! you must do penance!

I know, don't be anxious

Screw up, I know

I will do certain penance

You are lying

I'm not lying

Who told you?

The lord of the new house

it was his last words last night

to whom?

Of course Aen

Then why how you know?

From Aen.. I just passed by

Wretch! you must have gone to tempt Shiro!

Wretch! I didn't

The stinky guy gets crazy, because too stinky

He was abandoned by Shiro, he's mad

Mad! mad!

Beast!

they have the impertinence to disdain me

God, please let me cure the stinky sickness soon

Let Aen's husband die soon, and..

Wretch! you cheat me

I know all the things that occurred yesterday

You spied on brother and his wife?

Did you seek?

Are you talking about mother's teeth

Teeth?

Mother said don't tell anyone else

I'm talking about Shiro at the new house

Wretch, what about mother's teeth?

Brother

You know?

Come here

Let me give the guy a lesson

Brother

Always perpetrate a fraud

Brother.... mother

I like your teeth, like stone, solid and big

I want to kill you

If I go, what about you?

Be law-abidng

I'm a pig, in front of brother

Yes, listen to me, all will be OK

Don't you feel stinky?

What will happen to Stinky?

I think mother doesn't care about my stench

It feels like a sword

Now it's raining inside me.

The baby seems much bigger than before

When will it be born?

Next year.

Would the baby's face be like me or its father?

Like grandma

Grandma said he would be premature

What sin does a premature baby have?

It is from procreating too young

Grandma dislikes me

She said I am like Arha in the song

who is helpless

Come to my home to eat tomorrow

Really?

We will limit one bowl per person from tonight

Yes!

Matsu, you are excellent in that aspect

but are awful at making a fire

I'm sorry every time

Anyway, there are many in mother's home

Penance to the mountain God

What can I do to help them?

Then don't go!

The unborn child is so bothersome

How can we prevent them from occuring?

Everybody must make a decision quickly

I want go to bed

Everybody get up!

Hurry up!

Where are Tatsuhei and Kesakichi?

They have gone

Where? the rain-house?

Your home, you have no need to go

You go look after Yuki

The sound heard just now is rain-house

He had the impertinence to steal the beans harvested ten days ago

I caught him

Then appease the mountain God, follow the rule

Go search!

Find! Find!

It's a bit thick, it's in Ameya's potato field

Less than half of this

No wonder we harvest so few this year

It's been picked back early

Look, so many!

Ameya's father had also been sacrificed to the mountain God

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