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...
Bibliographic Details
| Uniform Title: | Narayamabushi kō (Motion picture : 1958) |
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| Main Authors: |
Fukasawa, Shichirō, 1914-1987
(Author),
Kemp, Philip
(Author) |
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| Corporate Authors: |
Criterion Collection (Firm),
Janus Films |
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| 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) |
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| Format: | Video
DVD
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| Language: | Japanese |
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| Language Notes: | Japanese dialogue; with optional English subtitles. |
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| Published: |
[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2013]
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| Edition: | DVD ed. |
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| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)
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