The Ballad of Narayama (Blu-ray)
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The Ballad of Narayama
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 5, 2013
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Kinuyo Tanaka | |
| Performer: | Teiji Takahashi & Yuko Mochizuki | |
| Directed by | Keisuke Kinoshita | |
| Edited by | Yoshi Sugihara | |
| Director of Photography: | Hiroyuki Kusuda |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: A- --
Kinoshita's use of color is spectacular.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
4 stars out of 4 -- THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty.
RogerEbert.com
Kinoshita stages the entire movie as a hybrid of cinema and kabuki, complete with an onscreen narrator describing the action...
A.V. Club
Rating: 3.5/4 --
a striking experimental mixture of Japanese folklore, theatrical traditions, and stunning camerawork
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3/4 --
Modern audiences may find it difficult to adjust to its laconic pace, but it is a stirring tale, full of dignity and sorrow, and worth checking out for sure.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Rating: 4.5/5 --
It is unquestionably one of the most beautiful films I have seen, every shot is designed, composed, lit and photographed to perfection.
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Eye for Film
[Keisuke] adopts a strongly kabuki-influenced approach, shooting in colour, scope and on studio sets so stylised that their artificial backdrops and scene-changes are proudly flaunted...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
A fusion of Japanese Kabuki and modern film techniques, this adaptation of Shichiro Fukazawa's 1956 novel depicts the moving tale of a 69-year-old woman's traditional journey from her poor village to the summit of Mount Narayama to die. 1983's THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA is Shohei Imamura's acclaimed remake of the film.
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- UPC: 715515102513
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