The Ballad of Narayama 1958
7.8 / 10
The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Videos & Photos
All 2 Videos & 10 Photos
cast
Full Cast & Crew
Genres:
Release Date:
Jun 01, 1958 (Japan)
Run Time:
1hr 38`
MMPA Rating:
Original Language:
Japanese
Production Countries:
Japan
Status:
Released
Plot Keywords:
Cast & Crew of
The Ballad of Narayama - The Ballad of Narayama
Directors & Credit Writers
... Assistant Director
... Director
Cast
... Orin
... Tatsuhei
... Tamayan
... Matayan
... Matayan's son
KM
Ken Mitsuda... Teruyan
... Kesakichi
... Matsu-yan
... Messenger
... One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)
... Tatsuhei's son (uncredited)
... One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)
... One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)
Produced By
RO
Ryuzo Otani... Producer
... Producer
Videos & Photos of
The Ballad of Narayama - The Ballad of Narayama
Videos ( 2)
The Ballad of Narayama - Trailer
YouTube
Photos ( 10 )
Related Movies To
The Ballad of Narayama - The Ballad of Narayama
Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985)
5.3 /10
A female teacher who is skilled in kendo is assigned to a rural high school in a beautiful remote valley. But she is soon trapped in a wide conspiracy of lust and perversion by those around her.
Run Time: 1hr 7` . MMPA: . Release: 14 Dec 1985
Director: Kenichi Ikeda , Masahito Segawa
Producer: Koji Okumura
Stars: Ran Masaki , Izumi Shima , Saori Mizuno , Hiroshi Nawa , Nobutaka Masutomi , Seiichirô Fukuyama
Double Rope Torture (1985)
5.3 /10
Two sisters are captured by a bounty hunter for an S&M nightclub .
Run Time: 1hr 14` . MMPA: . Release: 15 Jan 1985
Director: Katsuji Kanazawa , Ikuo Sekimoto
Producer: Tetsuya Yahiro
Stars: Kaori Asô , Miki Takakura , Ayu Kiyokawa , Tatsuya Nanjo , Megumi Ishihara , Kazunori Nobuzane
The Temptation of Kimono (2009)
7.3 /10
Mikage will get married to Youiti next year, she agrees to live with Youiti's parents. One day, Youiti's father disrobed Mikage's Kimono and raped her. To her astonishment, her fiancé Youiti whom Mikage considers true love has an affair with his young stepmother. Shocked and devastated, what will Mikage do?
Run Time: 1hr 25` . MMPA: . Release: 27 Mar 2009
Director: Tadashi Kyouya
Producer: Shinpei Okuda
Stars: Elly Akira , Risa Sakamoto , Mika Muroi , Taro Kai , Yoshihiro Tanbara
Beauty Rope Cosmetology (1983)
6.2 /10
A wealthy college girl is snatched off the streets by a pair of S&M professionals. They methodically break her will with the extensive use of bondage and erotic devices. But who has hired them and for what perverse reason?
Run Time: 1hr 9` . MMPA: . Release: 02 Dec 1983
Director: Yasunobu Takahashi , Katsuhiko Fujii
Producer: Koji Okumura
Stars: Miki Takakura , Maya Ito , Ren Osugi , Kissei Kumamoto , Utaroku Miyakoya , Midori Mori
Nun in Rope Hell (1984)
5 /10
A woman gets caught by the wife of her lover which results in a stabbing. Feeling guilty she runs away and joins a nunnery. But she soon discovers that several nuns and a well known author have turned the place into their own personal S&M playground.
Run Time: 1hr 9` . MMPA: . Release: 25 May 1984
Director: Katsuji Kanazawa , Katsuhiko Fujii
Producer: Kota Yamada , Koji Okumura
Stars: Miki Takakura , Maya Ito , Asami Ogawa , Hiroshi Unayama , Hiromi Yamaguchi , Shingo Yamamoto
Bullet Train Explosion (2025)
0 /10
When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board.
Run Time: 2hr 17` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 23 Apr 2025
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Producer: Kota Ishizuka , Kensei Mori , Yoshihiro Sato
Stars: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi , Kanata Hosoda , Non , Jun Kaname , Machiko Ono , Hana Toyoshima
Muhan (1985)
5.2 /10
Gritty softcore thriller about a female assassin brutally victimized in her past, her target, and her sadistic yakuza handler.
Run Time: 1hr 9` . MMPA: . Release: 16 Nov 1985
Director: Kenichi Ikeda , Naosuke Kurosawa
Producer: Koji Chiba
Stars: Rei Akasaka , Kiriko Shimizu , Takashi Naito , Hiroshi Umeno , Kazuhiro Yamaji , Yasuharu Ôkubo
Tokyo Train Girls: Private Lessons (2009)
5.2 /10
New teacher Chihiro has been on the job for three months. She does her job with great enthusiasm, but she has a secret that nobody must know. As a student, she accumulated debt in order to keep up with her well-to-do friends. She can’t pay it back on the wages of a teacher so she started working part-time as a Chat-Lady. In front of a web camera that hides her face, she shakes her breasts and hips. By chance, her student, Kazuaki discovers the web site.
Run Time: 1hr 20` . MMPA: . Release: 25 Sep 2009
Director: Tadashi Kyouya
Producer: Shinpei Okuda
Stars: Meguri , Jiro Tanaka , Takahiro Nomura , Mina Saeki
Parasyte: Part 2 (2015)
6.5 /10
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.
Run Time: 1hr 57` . MMPA: R . Release: 25 Apr 2015
Director: Kohei Adachi , Takashi Yamazaki
Producer: Go Abe , Genki Kawamura , Hideharu Yamashita
Stars: Shota Sometani , Ai Hashimoto , Sadawo Abe , Eri Fukatsu , Masahiro Higashide , Nao Omori
Bedtime Eyes (1987)
5.6 /10
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI on the margins of the law.
Run Time: 1hr 58` . MMPA: . Release: 25 Apr 1987
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Producer:
Stars: Kanako Higuchi , Michael Wright , Michiyo Yasuda , Eiji Okuda , Akira Emoto , Naoto Takenaka
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Life That Burns (2017)
0 /10
In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, known as Kabane, using powerful armored trains. (Compilation film of the second half of the original TV series.)
Run Time: 1hr 47` . MMPA: . Release: 07 Jan 2017
Director: Tetsuro Araki
Producer:
Stars: Tasuku Hatanaka , Sayaka Senbongi , Maaya Uchida , Toshiki Masuda , Kanae Oki , Kensuke Sato
Geki iki okusama: Shikumareta kairaku (2019)
0 /10
Shinichi and his younger wife, Saki (Marina Yuuri), are newly married, but Shinichi's thin salary makes life difficult and Saki is looking for a part. After that, Saki, who won the public corporation apartment that she applied for in commemoration of her engagement, becomes close to a woman named Mika who lives in the room next to her and lives with her unemployed husband. One day, Mika learned that Saki was looking for a part, and brought a bottle of umeshu, which her parents had made. And Saki knows that this plum wine is Mika's source of income that supports her husband who is unable to get a job...
Run Time: 1hr 10` . MMPA: . Release: 12 Apr 2019
Director: Kazuyoshi Sekine
Producer:
Stars: Maina Yuuri , Yuka Asami , Yôko Satomi , Atsushi Tsuda , Yasushi Takemoto , Seiji Nakamitsu