The Ballad of Narayama
1958 · 98 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 3,931 VOTES · DIR. Keisuke Kinoshita
Overview
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Dialogue Timeline — 529 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:09 SHOCHIKU PRESENTS
00:04:01 Why... I have come from yonder village.
00:05:52 I have no more than 28!
00:08:29 Which means the same old song...
00:12:29 What are you doing?
00:15:01 One's heart grows heavy and the soul grows damp;
00:19:33 Mata-yan, as a neigbor and old friend
00:21:22 Strange one.. have you come to join our festival?
00:24:49 Why were you sitting on that stump?
00:26:54 aren't too skilful.
00:32:16 Festival time comes once a year;
00:36:06 Brightens the pathway of young ones in love.
00:39:56 You've injured your leg!
00:42:16 It is wisest to go when snow is expected
00:47:59 Wretched dotard!
00:50:32 Why... they're boiled about right!
00:52:06 Even the crow crics ominously.
00:55:45 Hear! That's the spirit!
01:01:31 Mayhap this daily life we lead
01:05:45 no eye must watch you depart.
01:10:06 at the Gorge of the Seven Bends.
01:12:31 without your telling me.
01:16:40 Above the cold and whistling winds.