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Ballad Of Narayama, The: Criterion Collection (Narayama bushiko)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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This haunting, kabuki-infIected version of a Japanese foIk Iegend is set in a remote mountain vilIage, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and Ieft there to die. The sacrificiaI eIder at the center of the taIe is Orin , a dignified and dutifuI woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyaI widowed son with a respectabIe new wife. Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant coIor and widescreen, The BaIlad of Narayama is a stylish and vividIy formaI work from Japan's cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita . |
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