Trailer JustWatch . In her last few remaining days, Orin spends her time attempting her best to find a suitable wife for her son, so that she can pass on knowing that he will live happily.…. 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. TMDb That's because the 1983 version exists, which I reviewed as 5-stars one month ago, and I'll take that hard realism without artifice as my despairing poison of choice in a heartbeat. Film data from TMDb. This list is the Letterboxd version of The Oxford History of World Cinema. Culturally, I feel more of a distance from this film than Shohei Imamura's 1983 remake because Keisuke Kinoshita's film is not interested in universal nihilism, like Imamura, but more so in countryside identity and olden and golden folklore. Told in Kabuki theater style, the 1958 The Ballad of Narayama by Keisuke Kinoshita has its quotient of hushed dread but it is to me a truncated masterpiece. This website embed videos which are legally & The book celebrates and chronicles over one…, The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts…. The Ballad of Narayama is a tragic and beautiful tale of a woman in her twilight years. This absolutely devastating work by Keisuke Kinoshita is for sure one of the most pessimistic and depressing movies I've seen so far, and one of the more elegant and stylistically self-assured films from the "Golden Era" of Japanese cinema. Whether the practice of obasute is legendary or not, it’s…. In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. © Letterboxd Limited. However, MY GOD, this movie is GORGEOUS. I know that even today Japan has an issue with their elderly (it comes up rather often thematically in their media). For other episodes, we provide direct Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita • 1958 • Japan Starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Fantastic scene transitions. The scenery, the colours, the instrumentation, the wonderfully drawn backgrounds all make for some gorgeous shots. الفيلم كأنه مسرحية ، ماحبيت الاسلوب بس القصة مؤثرة و السيناريو جميل بس الاسلوب و الموسيقى حسيتها مزعجة, * فيه فيلم اخر بنفس الاسم و القصة عام ١٩٨٣ راح اشوفه مستقبلاً ان شاء الله. It is for this reason that I’m still struggling to rate the film accurately and may well need a second viewing to fully appreciate Kinoshita’s intentions. The 1983 version is one of the most extraordinary visions of heaven and hell on Earth ever made.…. It tells what is still a very compelling story, but the studio sets and 50s sensibilities put this movie in a much less realistic world that makes it harder to connect with. The world is in flux, unstable and uncaring, all of which causes distress, as made evident by the brilliant final shot which portrays the world's transience in…. Damn, it's so pretty it heals my heart. I'm sure watching this version before Imamura's classic would help, but I can only base my opinion off my own experiences. A beautiful tragedy in japanese folklore, a haunting sacrifice underline by a marvelously vivid nightmare-ish visual appearence. The 1001 Greatest Films, ranked as objectively as possible, The 100 Greatest Documentaries, ranked as objectively as possible, The Most Comprehensive List of Japanese Movies Ever...Maybe, Every Film Available on The Criterion Channel, ✈️Best Foreign Language Film (International Film) Academy Awards Submissions (1947-2020). And that ending punches you right in the gut. This movie just feels like a faint echo (even though it came first). Starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki. Films in this list are from the links below: • 30 Films the Director Wants You to See • Criterion…. Gorgeous set design. Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant color and widescreen, THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA is a stylish and vividly formal work from Japan’s cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita.