On Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 12:20:27 PM UTC-7, wlah...@gmail.com wrote:

Hey,

Shohei Imamura’s 1983 version of Shichiro Fukazawa’s novel, Narayama bushiko, is one of my favorite films and now that I’ve finally caught up with Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1958 version of “Ballad of Narayama,” I’ve found one of those rare

instances where two distinctly visions of the same story – made decades apart – are just as satisfying. Imamura shot it as realism on location and Kinoshita set the whole production in a studio and used a kabuki-inspired style to tell the story.

The film is based on Ubasute, the practice of taking the elderly to a remote location – usually a mountain – and leaving them there to die. There is some controversy about how widespread the practice occurred – or whether it happened at all. ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute

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