Ballad of Narayama DVD
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'Ballad of Narayama' Director: Keisuke Kinoshita (1958) Japanese/English subtitles
Stylised and theatrical with memorable us of colour. The film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the custom is that once a member of the community reaches the age of seventy they are brough to the mountain's peak to await their death. One such elder first tries to sort out the lives of her children before her son must carry her upwards.
