The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考)

The Ballad of Narayama

produced by Jiro Tomoda Goro Kusakabe

By News Shichiro of Fukazawa

Image: Masa TOCHIZAWA lighting: Yasuo IWAKI

music: Shinichiro Ikebe Sound: Senichi BENITANI

assembly: Hajime OKAYASU decoration: Hisao INAGAKI

Ken Ogata

Sumiko Sakamoto

Tonpei Hidari Takejo AKI

Nijiko KIYOKAWA Mitsuko Baisho

Norinei MIKI Ryutaro Tatsumi

written and directed by Shohei Imamura

What happened in the "new house"?

Not much.

How is the old?

So-so, it seems.

Tome, bring me the logs.

Grandma, how old are you?

Sixty-nine.

You have beautiful tight teeth.

You can eat pine cones and dried peas.

I have never eaten these things.

Grandmother you've thirty-three teeth.

Idiot, I only have twenty-eight.

You didn't count beyond 28. You've got more than that!

Késakichi, shut up and work.

The old "home in the middle",

his chance is great

greater its chance

The day he goes to the mountain,

it's snowing in large flakes

He is still sleeping, stink?

Risuke?

Our horse is hungry.

Have you been to the "new home" last night?

It is said by all cadets in the village

you are said to kiss their dog.

I've never done that.

These people treat her as their own daughter.

The late head of the line

had beaten to death a guy who slept with her.

I do not go, I tell you.

You're a junior, of course, but you're my brother.

If you make such a mistake, I will be ashamed.

You stink of the mouth! Go away and I can't breathe.

Hey, Uncle Jinsaku!

Why cook white rice at home?

Our mother is dying.

The old Okan?

Mom, white rice is cooked.

Uncle ...

You have thrown the baby our rice?

It bothers me that you have done that.

The newborn?

Your wife had a big belly, it showed.

That's not true what you say.

The baby of my daughter, I buried in our cemetery.

When?

About ten days ago, I took him there and buried.

The one you saw must come from "the middle house."

Again, there was a pregnant woman.

That must be it.

It's your turn to prepare the coffin.

Mom will soon die. I'm counting on you.

Dis, Tsun!

It was you who left a newborn in our rice?

Yes.

In the stinking rice paddies, it will decompose faster.

You should thank me.

I have no need of such fertilizers.

This may be your brother's kid.

It is not me, anyway.

Too bad it was not a girl.

Fool!

You have been left the edge of a torrent.

You're a useless cadet .

You as well.

All cadets have the same fate.

What you stink!

If I have another boy, I'll throw it ...

In the rice stink.

I do not need your fertilizers, I say.

Well, you're the merchant of salt.

Orin, that time passes. It's been a year now.

You've had a grand-daughter in the meantime.

But you know, his mother, the wife of my son ...

Yes, I heard about it. What a pity ...

Last year just after childbirth,

picking chestnuts, she fell off the cliff.

Mount. Take hot water.

Where is your son Tatsuhei?

He must be in the rice fields.

From here

I think seeing him in the mountain West.

Who? Tatsuhei?

We were far from each other. I could be wrong.

Orin, I came today to talk about something.

It's salt!

But we have not yet decided about the little one.

This is not why I'm here.

It is Yonékichi the village the other side that gives you the salt.

From the village opposite.

I have to tell you ...

About a second wife for Tatsuhei ...

His wife will come from the village opposite.

Her name is Tamayan

She is a widow for three days.

She will come after her mourning.

She was thirty-seven eight years younger than you.

I do not care.

Do not go near the smelly

You have to obey him when he asks you to walk away.

Késakichi is the heir. It will be head of the family one day.

Ginyan of "what the house is raining" ...

... Tatsuhei

Have you been to the mountain of the west this morning?

No.

The salt merchant saw you.

You look more like your father.

Do you think he saw our father?

He disappeared thirty years ago. It should not be alive.

The merchant had to error.

Do not cry.

Mom!

You do not know why Dad is gone?

This year, you had fifteen Risuke were five.

A very poor harvest.

I had to sell the salt merchant a girl I had just born.

The mother of your father reached 69 age, time to go to Mountain.

Narayama That she should go to that age

With all that was under ...

... Your father was very depressed.

He did not have the courage to take her mother in the mountains.

We must have the respect for the law.

It does not work with our feelings.

For him it was beyond his courage, he fled.

To us it was a shame.

And you are like him?

I will not be like my father.

So that's good.

My grandmother counting

in a corner of cubbyhole

the thirty-three hair

that adorn her lower abdomen

Matsu ...

- How many hairs do you have down there? - I do not know.

Then I'll count them for you.

No, I do not want.

No, not here.

Oh, my ferns!

I do not care ...

Later ...

... I will pluck for you twice.

And also many other plants.

Everything you want.

I'll give you a lot.

You'll see.

You're hurting me.

Orin of "the house of the strain"

in a corner of the closet

It was attended thirty-three Devil's Teeth

You come home.

You can count how many teeth my mother has.

I was not paying attention.

I only repeat it. But your son sings this.

- Késakichi sings this? - Yes, of course.

Who is it? Help me!

My son is a demon.

He does not give me to eat.

He wants me to starve.

Who is it?

Papa ...

It Tatsuhei de "home of the strain."

Oh, it's you.

I tied him with a rope.

This is not the first time.

This winter, I will take him to the mountain.

He will reach the age.

Your mother too will soon turn 70.

Orin of "the house of the strain"

in a corner of the closet

she met thirty-three Devil's Teeth

Teeth of your grandmother the devil are they?

You have been so spoiled by it.

How can you sing so?

Bastard!

You will not have to eat!

You're lucky, Orin.

Why you say that?

I want to live a little longer.

It's a shame for me to be as healthy.

I'm just eating.

I want to go to the mountain.

I do not want to die in my bed ...

... And be buried I know not where.

It will not change.

In any case, our souls will go to the mountain.

- We will meet up there. - See you?

Sure. Your husband expects you there as well.

As for mine, I do not know.