Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa. Based on the novel by Shichirō Fukazawa. Originally produced as motion picture in 1958. A foreign film (Japan). Letterboxed.
Summary:
The story of a son who fights his village's custom of exiling old people into the mountains when the time comes to carry his own mother to Narayama. Presented in a mix of kabuki theater and cinematic styles.
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