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"A LASTING AND SEARING IMAGE..."

Posted By: TheMythSmith
Date: Thursday, 20-Aug-2009 15:30:32

In Response To: RAREST OF CONDITIONS AT LEO NEW MOON AFFECT EQUINOX AND HARVEST SEASON (TheMythSmith)

"A LASTING AND SEARING IMAGE..." The Legend of Narayama : Now we start to develop cultural "consciousness" of the : life-death continuum, as dramatized in The Ballad of Narayama: http://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Narayama-VHS-Ken-Ogata/dp/6302969565 snip Although it is not one of those films one takes out too often for repeated viewings, it is one that everyone should view at least once. The film centers on the life of one elderly woman named Orin (Sumiko Sakamoto). She is now in her seventieth year of life, and must therefore prepare to die. Her son Tatsuhei (Ken Ogata) has the responsibility of taking his mother up to the base of Narayama to die. This is truly an unforgettable film. This self-sacrifice for the survival of the village will leave a lasting and searing image in your mind... http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE2DB113FE13ABC4851DFB066838A679EDE snip Drawing his material out of the limbo of ancient Nipponese legend, director Keisuke Kinoshita, who also adapted the original novel to the screen, is concerned mainly with the custom, harshly implacable to Occidental eyes, of transporting the aged and infirm rustic villagers to the barren heights of Mount Narayama, where a rough nature soon solves the problem of feeding and maintaining them. In the Japan of long ago that Mr. Kinoshita is illustrating at a sometimes painfully slow pace, the approach to the geriatric enigma was drastic but simple. Posted only for review purposes. -tms

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