Japan,
1958, 98 min
Plots(1)
In a sleepy hamlet, tradition dictates that anyone above the age of seventy must be banished to the mountains for the good of the village. When her son remarries, an elderly woman rejoices that she can begin her exile in peace... (Shochiku)
Cast
![Kinuyo Tanaka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271623_771b58.jpg)
Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Ballad of Narayama (1958)
![Teiji Takahashi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272013_2a4419.jpg)
Teiji Takahashi
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Early Spring (1956)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Danko Ichikawa
Best movies:
Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Daredevil in the Castle (1961)
Yūko Mochizuki
Japan
Best movies:
Ballad of Narayama (1958)
The End of Summer (1961)
Red Lion (1969)
![Eijirō Tōno](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/615/158615754_9991c8.jpg)
Eijirō Tōno
Japan
Best movies:
Revenge (1963)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
![Seiji Miyaguchi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279848_3a706d.jpg)
Seiji Miyaguchi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Early Summer (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
織田政雄
Japan
Best movies:
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
High and Low (1963)
Ballad of Narayama (1958)