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Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama and Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence are both expected to earn their distributors about $4 million. So is The Makioka Sisters, directed by Kon Ichikawa from Junichiro Tanizaki's novel about an upper-class family just before World War II. Masaki Kobayashi's Tokyo Saiban, a grueling, 41/2-hour documentary of the Tokyo war-crimes trials, is a surprise success that should earn rental fees of $ 1.6 million...
...Paris. The award reflected a retreat to the ordinary concerns of cinema. Last year's Palme d'Or winners, Missing from the U.S. and Yol from Turkey, played like news bulletins from Third World battlegrounds. This year's winner, Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, is a harshly elemental lyric about Japanese mountain folk that could have been made any time in the past three decades. Two survivors of the international film wars won special consolations, Grand Prize for Cinema Creation: France's Robert Bresson for L 'Argent, a lucid, listless parable about...
...COMING OF AGE, Simone de Beauvoir recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayama. It tells of the primitive custom, the "Feast of the Dead", the execution of village elders who have become a burden on their children, or have merely reached an untenable age. "Do the sacrificed elders often have a reaction of dread and rebellion?" de Beauvoir asks. She thinks evidence proves they do. Yet spanning the centuries as well as the distance between East and West, she concludes that old age has become life's parody in all societies, an end to life so degrading that...
Kinoshita has become known for his "Ballad of Narayama," "Twenty-Four Eyes," "The Lighthouse," and "Carmen's Pure Love...