The Ballad of Narayama (1958) on Netflix
Food is scarce in Orin's village, where children carry elders of seventy up a mountain to die alone. Orin, sixty-nine, must get her family ready for the ritual.
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- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb7.8/104,197 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes86%
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Plot summary
Orin is sixty-nine and lives in a village in the mountains, where food is scarce. The custom known there as ubasute holds that a person of seventy is carried by one of their children up a nearby mountain and left to die in solitude. Orin accepts this as her fate. The rest of her family is still with her, and getting them ready for the ritual is what she struggles with.
Cast
- Keiko Ogasawaraas Matsu-yan
- Katsuyuki Hattorias Tatsuhei's son (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
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- The film is built on the Japanese legend of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die.
- Roger Ebert added The Ballad of Narayama to his Great Movies list in 2013, making it the final film he added to that list before his death.
