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• Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yűko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara
• Directors: Keisuke Kinoshita
• Writers: Keisuke Kinoshita, Shichirô Fukazawa
• Producers: Masaharu Kokaji, Ryuzo Otani
• Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kino Video
• VHS Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304145039
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #248,707 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Tale about the unending cicle of Nature., October 15, 1999

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This review is from: Narayama Bushi-Ko [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita in a Noh play atmosphere, Narayama Bushiko is an emotive film about a poor village and its' tradition to send the elderly to die at the nearby mountain of Narayama. It focuses the desire of a grandmother, who has secured descendence, to go up that mountain; and the reluctance of her son to carry her there. The film is brilliantly directed, with cinematic influences of Russian (particularly Eisenstein's) filmmaking: the dramatic expression on the actors faces, resembling moving pictures, the haunting music that sets the heavy tone to all of the movie... Over all, it's a great movie, sadly overshadowed by the 1983 Shoei Imamura's take on the same story and which won him the Palme d'Or. Personally, I prefer the Kinoshita original film.