In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he or she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.... (Full plot summary below)
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In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he or she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
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| Slant MagazineZach CampbellHowever you slice up postwar Japanese cinema, Shohei Imamura is one of its premiere figures. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatPresents a wild, realistic and raw portrait of life in a small Japanese mountain village one hundred years ago |
| Filmcritic.comDon Willmotta remarkable comedy/drama that lives up to that overused adjective: haunting |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonA masterpiece of the human condition...[but] below the very peak of Imamura's filmmaking powers. |
| Projected FiguresAnton Bitelin this hermetic world... Imamura captures a truly universal, all-encompassing experience, showing the transmission of virtues and vices from one generation to the next in the service of life's tenacious continuity. |
| User ReviewJaclyn OFantastic film! It will make you laugh, and it will make you cry. |
| User ReviewRyan HQuite exceptional. This was my first Imamura and I am really excited about checking out the rest of his oeuvre. This film was very savage, but punctuated with beauty and humanity. Yes, humanity. A masterpiece. |
| User ReviewHari SA brilliant, unforgettable film that bares the human psyche â?? the rawness, and the minutiae are all on display. The mother figure is so strong, and her actions help us reconcile with the inevitability of loss. |
| User ReviewParis TI forgot this one?!!?? How terrible my memory is... |
| User Reviewshanul hThat movie equivalent to one vodka bottle. Solo. At hole... Like the spot of light. |
