The Ballad of Narayama

The Kabuki-styled film tells a story about a small village in the mountains suffering from scarcity of food, upholds the tradition of carrying the elderly who reach the ago of seventy and abandoning them on the mountainside of Narayama. Sixty-nine year old, Orin readily embraces her fate to die during the winter, but her forty-five year old son, Tatsuhei cannot bear the thought of abandoning his mother and leaving her to her fate.
~~ Adapted from the novel “The Ballad of Narayama” (楢山節考) by Fukasawa Shichiro (深沢七郎).