The Ballad of Narayama
1958 · 98 min · Original language: Japanese
TMDB 7.6/10 · 93 votes
In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.
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