Movie Info: Narayama bushikô (1983)

Director: Shohei Imamura

Writer: Shichirô Fukazawa, Shôhei Imamura

Producer: Producer: Jirô Tomoda

Genre: art, comedy drama, film based on literature, drama

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top 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 s...