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Will to Live

01/15/1999

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1hr 59min

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Drama

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Rentaro Mikuni
  • Shinobu Ôtake
  • Naoko Ohtani
  • Akira Emoto
  • Yoshiko Miyazaki

    Director

  • Kaneto Shindō

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Kindai Eiga Kyokai

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni

Yasukichi

Shinobu Ôtake

Tokuko

Naoko Ohtani

Yasukichi's lover

Akira Emoto

Doctor

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Tomoko

Chōei Takahashi

Akaji Maro

Hideo Kanze

Director of a hospital

Aya Mizuno

Yuriko Hirooka

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