Summary: n 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. (imdb)

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Directed By: Keisuke Kinoshita

Written By: Keisuke Kinoshita, Shichirô Fukazawa

Starring: Seiji Miyaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yűko Mochizuki, Teiji Takahashi, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara

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