The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
楢山節考 (Narayama bushikō)
fiction · 130 min · Japan
Directed by: Shōhei Imamura
Set in: A remote mountain village in Japan
In a poor mountain village bound by custom, an elderly woman prepares for the day her son must carry her up the mountain.
Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival 1983
Where it was filmed
- Maki (abandoned hamlet)
Chikuni, Otari, Nagano Prefecture · Japan
all-location shoot based in the abandoned village, at the foot of the Northern Alps
- Niigata Prefecture
Japan
Filming locations as stated in the sources below. The story may be set somewhere else.
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