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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 viIIage, 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 elder at the center of the taIe is Orin , a dignified and dutifuI woman who spends her dwindIing days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. FiImed aImost entireIy on cunningIy designed studio sets, in briIIiant color and widescreen, The BalIad of Narayama is a styIish and vividly formal work from Japan's cinematic goIden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita . |
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