The Ballad of Narayama
楢山節考, Narayama bushikōby Keisuke Kinoshita1h381958Japan
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A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.
Credits
- Distributor : Shochiku Films
- Production Compagny : Shochiku Company
- Set Decoration : Kisaku Ito
- Original Music : Chuji Kinoshita, Matsunosuke Nozawa
- Photo Director : Hiroshi Kusuda
- Editing : Yoshi Sugihara
- Producer : Masaharu Kokaji, Ryuzo Otani
- Costume Design : Toshikazu Sugiyama
- Sound Recorder : Shûzô Horikawa
- Director : Keisuke Kinoshita
- Scenario : Keisuke Kinoshita
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Year of production : 1958
- French release date : 1 juin 1958
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : Japanese
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