Watch The Ballad of Narayama (1958) Online

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? Read More

Watch The Ballad of Narayama online. Featuring Kinuyo Tanaka and Teiji Takahashi, The Ballad of Narayama is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7.6. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 3 services such as Apple TV and Amazon Video. The movie was filmed in Japan and was released on 1958. The Ballad of Narayama was directed by Keisuke Kinoshita,Yoshikazu Ōtsuki. Read Less