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The Ballad of Narayama
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Foreign films.
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1958
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2021
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- 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. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin (Kinuyo Tanaka), a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. 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
- Participant:
- Danshi Ichikawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1958
- OCLC:
- 1256609546
- Publisher Number:
- 12057493 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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