Imamura Shōhei
Japan
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1983
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130’
In a remote mountain village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave their home and climb to a mountaintop to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Original title
楢山節考
Chromaticity
Color
FoRM
Fiction
DIRECTOR
Imamura Shohei (1926–2006) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He studied history at Waseda University and began working as an assistant director in 1951. He made his directorial debut in 1958 and founded his own independent production company in 1965. Associated with the Japanese New Wave, Imamura explored social issues and the lives of people on the margins of society. His acclaimed films include PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS (1961), a portrait of corruption in postwar Japan; THE INSECT WOMAN (1963), which follows a peasant woman who turns to prostitution; and THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (1983), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
Kuroi ame (1989); The Insect Woman (1963); Pigs and Battleships (1961)
CREDITS
DIRECTOR
Imamura Shōhei
SCREENPLAY
Imamura Shōhei, Shichirō Fukazawa
CAMERA
Masao Tochizawa
EDITING
Hajime Okayasu
PRODUCER
Jirô Tomoda
MUSIC
Shinichiro Ikebe
CAST
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejō
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Nobutaka Yoshino
PRODUCTION
Toei Company, Imamura Production
RIGHTS HOLDER
Toei Company
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