Release Date: 1983-04-29
Overview: 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 son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Rating: 7.508 / 10
Ken Ogata
as Tatsuhei
Sumiko Sakamoto
as Orin
Tonpei Hidari
as Risuke
Aki Takejo
as Tamayan
Shoichi Ozawa
as Katsuzô
Shōhei Imamura - Director
Shichirō Fukazawa - Novel
Shōhei Imamura - Screenplay
Kenichi Benitani - Sound
Tatsuo Tsukamoto - Assistant Sound Editor
The short review is "life's a bitch, then you die" LOL, that doesn't do this absolutely brilliant film any justice, though. Imamura has crafted a rather sardonic, brutally honest mirror of humans. ...