Narayamabushi kō Ballad of Narayama

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This kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, 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 left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of...

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Main Authors: Nozawa, Matsunosuke (Composer), Kineya, Rokuzaemon, 1800-1858 (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Kinoshita, Keisuke, 1912-1998 (Screenwriter, Director), Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977 (Actor), Takahashi, Teiji, 1926-1959 (Actor), Mochizuki, Yūko, 1917-1977 (Actor), Ichikawa, Ennosuke, 1939- (Actor), Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985 (Actor), Kusuda, Hiroshi (Cinematographer, director of photography.), Sugihara, Yoshi (Film editor), Ōtani, Ryōzō, 1926- (Producer), Kokaji, Masaharu (Producer), Fukasawa, Shichirō, 1914-1987
Format: DVD
Language:Japanese
English
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Edition:DVD ed.
Series:Criterion collection; 645.
Subjects:
Fukasawa, Shichirō, > 1914-1987 > Film adaptations.
Rites and ceremonies > Japan > Drama.
Japan > Social life and customs > Drama.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.

South Central College, Faribault

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Call Number: 791.43 B188

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