The Ballad of Narayama

★7.8 1958 1h 38m Drama

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

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Actors

Kinuyo Tanaka Kinuyo Tanaka Orin
Teiji Takahashi Teiji Takahashi Tatsuhei
Yūko Mochizuki Yūko Mochizuki Tamayan
Seiji Miyaguchi Seiji Miyaguchi Matayan
Yūnosuke Itō Yūnosuke Itō Matayan's son
KM Ken Mitsuda Teruyan
Danko Ichikawa Danko Ichikawa Kesakichi
KO Keiko Ogasawara Matsu-yan
Eijirō Tōno Eijirō Tōno Messenger
Kō Nishimura Kō Nishimura One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
KH Katsuyuki Hattori Tatsuhei's son (uncredited)
Tokuji Kobayashi Tokuji Kobayashi One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)