Film
Will to Live
1999 · 1h 59m · Drama
- IMDb
- 6.7
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Overview
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Yasukichi
Shinobu Otake
Tokuko
Naoko Ohtani
Yasukichi's lover
Akira Emoto
Doctor
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Tomoko
Choei Takahashi
Akaji Maro
Hideo Kanze
Director of a hospital
Aya Mizuno
Masaru Baba
Yuriko Hirooka
Hitoshi Kusanagi
Ai Toyama
Nao Omori
Rinko Kikuchi
Naomasa Musaka
Crew
- Kaneto ShindōDirector · Writer
- Jirô ShindôProducer
- Yoshiyuki MiyakeDirector of Photography
- Hikaru HayashiOriginal Music Composer
- Yukio WatanabeEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 15, 1999
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama
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