The Ballad of Narayama

Synopsis

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

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Cast

Ken Ogata

Tatsuhei

Sumiko Sakamoto

Orin

Tonpei Hidari

Risuke

Aki Takejo

Tamayan

Shoichi Ozawa

Katsuzô

Fujio Tokita

Jinsaku

Sanshō Shinsui

Zeniya Tadayan

Seiji Kurasaki

Kesakichi

Junko Takada

Matsuyan

Mitsuko Baisho

Oei

Taiji Tonoyama

Teruyan

Ben Hiura

Yakimatsu

Casey Takamine

Arayashiki

Nenji Kobayashi

Tsune

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Okane

Akio Yokoyama

Amaya

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Kaoru Shimamori

Tomekichi

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Yukie Shimura

Amaya's Wife

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Masami Okamoto

Amaya's Son

Kansai Eto

Kinyan

Crew

Art

• Senki Nakamura Set Decoration
• Mitsuto Washizawa Set Decoration
• Gorô Kusakabe Production Design
• Tadataka Yoshino Art Direction
• Hisao Inagaki Art Direction

Camera

• Masao Tochizawa Director of Photography
• Shigeru Komatsubara Assistant Camera
• Yutaka Kanazawa Assistant Camera

Costume & Make-Up

• Tomoe Ookawa Hairstylist
• Seiko Igawa Makeup Artist
• Zenichirô Ishikawa Hairstylist
• Takeshi Matsuo Key Hair Stylist
• Yōichi Mitsuoka Key Hair Stylist
• Kyoto Isho Costume Design

Crew

• Yoshio Kojima Special Effects

Directing

• Shōhei Imamura Director
• Shunsaku Ikehata Assistant Director
• Kunio Takeshige Assistant Director
• Nobuaki Murooka Assistant Director
• Takashi Tsukinoki Assistant Director

Editing

• Hajime Okayasu Editor
• Fusako Matsumoto Editor
• Toshihiko Kojima Editor
• Yoshiko Onodera Editor
• Masahito Watanabe Editor

Production

• Jirô Tomoda Producer

Sound

• Kenichi Benitani Sound
• Tatsuo Tsukamoto Assistant Sound Editor
• Toshio Nakano Assistant Sound Editor
• Shinichiro Ikebe Original Music Composer

Writing

• Shōhei Imamura Screenplay
• Shichirō Fukazawa Novel