From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 12:20:27 PM UTC-7, wlah...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hey,    
   >    
   > Shohei Imamura’s 1983 version of Shichiro Fukazawa’s novel, Narayama   
   bushiko, is one of my favorite films and now that I’ve finally caught up   
   with Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1958 version of “Ballad of Narayama,” I’ve   
   found one of those rare    
   instances where two distinctly visions of the same story – made decades   
   apart – are just as satisfying. Imamura shot it as realism on location and   
   Kinoshita set the whole production in a studio and used a kabuki-inspired   
   style to tell the story.    
   >    
   > The film is based on Ubasute, the practice of taking the elderly to a remote   
   location – usually a mountain – and leaving them there to die. There is   
   some controversy about how widespread the practice occurred – or whether it   
   happened at all. ..   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute   
      
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