A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.
1958
HD
98min
Japan
Japanese
Keisuke Kinoshita
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yūko Mochizuki
Teiji Takahashi
Yūnosuke Itō
Seiji Miyaguchi
Ken Mitsuda
Danko Ichikawa
Eijirō Tōno
Keiko Ogasawara
family relationships
social convention
dying traditions
