Movie Settings Database

The Ballad of Narayama

Where:

🇯🇵 Japan

When:

The 1860s

Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It… — 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 he/she 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.

Released in 1983 — 130 minutes

Genre:

Drama

Language:

Japanese