The Ballad of Narayama 楢山節考 (1983) (Region A Blu-ray) (English Subtitled) Fully Restored Japanese movie aka Narayama bushiko

Region Coding: Region A (Locked)

Starring:
Ken Ogata
Masami Okamoto
Sumiko Sakamoto
Fujio Tsuneda
Aki Takejo
Taiji Tonoyama
Tonpei Hidari
Casey Takamine

Director:
Shohei Imamura

Audio Tracks: 
PCM 2.0

Language: 
Japanese

Subtitles:
English, Traditional Chinese 繁體中文字幕

Running Time: 
130 minutes

Distributor: 
Panorama (HK)

Release Date:
12 July 2019

Synopsis:
In a small village everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountaintop to die. If anyone should refuse he/she would disgrace his/her 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.

日本深山中的貧困小村莊，傳統上年屆七十的老人都會被放逐到楢山，自生自滅活活餓死，以減少家庭的負擔，讓家人渡過漫長的寒冬。六十九歲的阿玲婆婆身體仍然強健，為了怕長子辰平惹人嘲笑，她甚至故意敲掉自己結實的門牙，以免被鄰居認為浪費糧食。在離開前，她也為著兒子與孫兒的婚事和生計奔波，直至上山前的一刻……

* Fully Restored from the original film.