The Ballad of Narayama Comments

Alysa 2022-11-29 15:17:14

In a sense, it can be said to be the highest achievement of Imamura Shohei. His themes of anthropology and Japanese ethnic studies have reached an extreme in this film, and the realistic scene creation of the film has also surpassed the previous works. Various explorations may have reached a stage, and the author's lingering alienation will not go in a different direction until "The...

Mavis 2022-11-29 07:34:27

In the barren land, the primitive instincts are entrenched in the mountains and rivers: foraging, sexual desire, reproduction and fear of death, the desire to survive makes them kill people, grab food, and leave bones in the mountains. The evil of human nature they expose is a kind of The product of the fusion of bestiality and divinity - without the appearance of civilization, we are all...

Carmine 2022-11-24 03:31:30

When people are talking about Imamura's cruel aesthetics, I see no less than Ozu's warmth...

Noah 2022-10-28 15:59:47

In a specific context, killing one's father, abandoning one's mother, throwing one's son to kill one's wife, and incest are like being hit in the head. Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs. Desires and morals, the suffering of the world is like...

Laurence 2022-10-04 02:14:28

This is a very wonderful film, except for the depiction of the primitive Japanese countryside and the interpretation of those ancient folk customs and cruel and real human nature, even the close-up of animals in the film As well as the pictures of the scenery, people are so intoxicated. ....

Coralie 2022-09-28 19:50:35

How do people survive in the face of extreme material scarcity? The film gives us a terrifying but real presentation. I remembered Cao Naiqian's novel "I can't think of you in the dark night". It was too bad. Cao Naiqian's contrived language "aestheticized"...

Adelbert 2022-09-25 20:31:39

It is said that East Asia is the hardest hit area of ​​involution, and the situation in rural East Asia is even worse. As the Japanese countryside with the most serious involution in East Asia, the bloody reality shown in the film is destined to be unacceptable to us postmodern people ( Equally bizarre things are not uncommon in rural China). I saw that many people in the short reviews attributed all the contradictions in the film to human nature. This is actually a very lazy and meaningless...

Destin 2022-09-12 07:54:04

Absolutely shocking, but I really regret watching it while eating supper... Finally a big white dog came out and thought it was cute, but it was Xed in a blink of an...

Clarabelle 2022-09-10 05:10:29

It's rare for a movie to talk about life and death so thoroughly and so eloquently. From the beginning of winter to the beginning of the snow, the people and animals in the village live and die at four times of the year. Whether it is sad or happy, it is not the point. The rhythm of the plot is extremely precise, and the emotional points are very well-crafted. Especially the last scene of going up the mountain can be described as wonderful, the grand feeling is always muted. The mother sits...

Andrew 2022-09-09 03:37:53

People who are like animals make people uncomfortable in every way. I would love to know how Imamura and Ozu can...