Ballad Of Narayama (1958)

Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita · Cinematography by Hiroshi Kusuda

98 min64 frames

Drama

With my mother on my back, now is the time to say goodbye to this world.

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What is Ballad Of Narayama about?

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?

The Ballad of Narayama is a 1958 Japanese historical drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It is based on the 1956 the story of the same name by Shichirō Fukazawa. The film explores the legendary practice of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die.

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Who stars in Ballad Of Narayama?

Who made Ballad Of Narayama?

Keisuke KinoshitaDirector
Hiroshi KusudaCinematography
Ryuzo OtaniProducer
Masaharu KokajiProducer

What does the cinematography of Ballad Of Narayama look like?

Sampled across 59 frames, the coverage of Ballad Of Narayama leans on wide compositions (53% of the sample) and medium shots (20%). Cinematographer Hiroshi Kusuda keeps 49% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 64% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 73% of the frames.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Ballad Of Narayama (1958) are #302e27, #0d110b, #2a1310, #2b271b, #4f4a35, #56564a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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