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In this second, award-winning interpretation of a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, director Shohei Imamura has inserted some scenes of violence and ritual sex that are shocking and were absent in the first, 1958 film. The story is set in the 19th century in a remote and severely impoverished mountain village in northern Japan. In this fictional society, once the elderly have reached the age of 70 they are brought up Mount Nara, where ancient gods reside, and left to die hopefully blessed by the
Unrated, 2 hr. 10 min.
Sep 7, 1984 Limited
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Imamura's rough sexual humor is still in evidence, but now it has taken on a dark tone: to make love is to flirt with death.
in this hermetic world... Imamura captures a truly universal, all-encompassing experience, showing the transmission of virtues and vices from one generation to the next in the service of life's tenacious continuity.
A good movie that could have been truly great
A masterpiece of the human condition...[but] below the very peak of Imamura's filmmaking powers.
a remarkable comedy/drama that lives up to that overused adjective: haunting
Grippingly told tale.
However you slice up postwar Japanese cinema, Shohei Imamura is one of its premiere figures.
Presents a wild, realistic and raw portrait of life in a small Japanese mountain village one hundred years ago
The Ballad of Naramaya is an indelible and transfixing poem of a movie that packs a substantial and complicated emotional punch.
Shohei Imamura present a great tale, the struggle of a mother to accomplish all the necessity of your family, before her death. With the perfect direction, and screenplay, The Ballad of Narayma, show too the sexual perform of her sons and the violent way of life that the community live together. Narayma, bring too a
June 22, 2011Super Reviewer
This movie was a treat!!It has everything: humor, drama, great characters and a beautiful story.It's situated in a peasant village, where everybody has to struggle to keep the mouths of their families fed. The people are submitted to strict rules to make sure that everything doesn't spin out of control. One of the
August 27, 2008Super Reviewer
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