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Ballad of Narayama

Four years after winning the Kinema Junpo Best Film with Twenty-Four Eyes, Kinoshita won it again with this film. Based on a traditional Japanese legend, the film is highly stylized and filmed like a Kabuki theatrical production. Regular Mizoguchi muse Kinuyo Tanaka plays the leading role of the matriach who must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama by her son to await death when she reaches the age of 70.....