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One of the most under seen films of all-time

Succeeds in some ways that a more realistic telling can miss

Deliciously Stunning Exploration of the Possibilities of Colour

Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, and Yôko Minamida in A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)

Kinuyo Tanaka in The Ballad of Narayama (1958)

Yûko Mochizuki and Teiji Takahashi in The Ballad of Narayama (1958)

Teiji Takahashi in The Ballad of Narayama (1958)

Teiji Takahashi and Kinuyo Tanaka in The Ballad of Narayama (1958)

Kinuyo Tanaka

Teiji Takahashi

Yûko Mochizuki

Shichirô Fukazawa

Keisuke Kinoshita

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.

Narayama bushikô

Almost a Japanese Kabuki drama

&quot;The balad of Narayama&quot; is about the so called &quot;Ubasute&quot;. An elderly person is carried to a mountain and left there to die. According to recent insights &quot;ubasute&quot; is an ancient legend and was never a real practice.

Wit an aging population the relevance of this myth is rising also in the Western world, if only as warning againt tensions between the generations. In the Netherlands there were some ugly discussions about elderly people occupying scarce intensive care capacity at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

The 1958 version of &quot;The balad of Narayama&quot; is less well known as the movie of the same name by Shohei Imamura from 1983. It differs in two respects.

In the first place there is a material difference. In this movie the center of gravity is on the different ways that people can handle and accept their own mortality. In the Imamura movie the accent is on the battle between the generations for the scarce food supplies (or scarce health care capacity in my example given anbove).

In the second place there is a stylistic difference. This movie is much more artificial, reminding of the traditional Japanese Kabuki drama. In its artificiality of the use of colors it also reminds of &quot;Kwaidan&quot; (1964, Masaki Kobayashi).

I like the version of Keisuke Kinoshita better then the later one of Shohei Imamura. The reason being, I think, that the stylistic artificiality is better suited for the mythical character of the story.

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"The balad of Narayama" is about the so called "Ubasute". An elderly person is carried to a mountain and left there to die. According to recent insights "ubasute" is an ancient legend and was never a real practice.

Wit an aging population the relevance of this myth is rising also in the Western world, if only as warning againt tensions between the generations. In the Netherlands there were some ugly discussions about elderly people occupying scarce intensive care capacity at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

The 1958 version of "The balad of Narayama" is less well known as the movie of the same name by Shohei Imamura from 1983. It differs in two respects.

In the first place there is a material difference. In this movie the center of gravity is on the different ways that people can handle and accept their own mortality. In the Imamura movie the accent is on the battle between the generations for the scarce food supplies (or scarce health care capacity in my example given anbove).

In the second place there is a stylistic difference. This movie is much more artificial, reminding of the traditional Japanese Kabuki drama. In its artificiality of the use of colors it also reminds of "Kwaidan" (1964, Masaki Kobayashi).

I like the version of Keisuke Kinoshita better then the later one of Shohei Imamura. The reason being, I think, that the stylistic artificiality is better suited for the mythical character of the story.

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