Narayamabushi kō /

This haunting, 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Narayamabushi kō (Motion picture : 1958)
Main Authors:	Fukasawa, Shichirō, 1914-1987 (Author), Kemp, Philip (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Criterion Collection (Firm), Janus Films
Other Authors:	Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977 (Actor), Takahashi, Teiji, 1926-1959 (Actor), Mochizuki, Yuko, 1917-1977 (Actor), Kinoshita, Keisuke, 1912-1998 (Screenwriter, Director), Kokaji, Masaharu (Producer)
Format:	Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:	Japanese
Language Notes:	Japanese dialogue; with optional English subtitles.
Published:	[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Edition:	Blu-ray ed.
Series:	Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs)
Subjects:	Rites and ceremonies > Japan > Drama. Motion pictures, Japanese. Japan > Social life and customs > Drama. Feature films. Fiction films. Film adaptations. Foreign films.