It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
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Genres
Drama
Cast
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- Director
- Kaneto Shindō
- Writer
- Kaneto Shindō
- Released
- 1999-01-15
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
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