The story takes place in a remote village in the mountains of Shinshu, Japan more than 100 years ago. Behind the small mountain village, Narayama is continuous, and the peak is covered with snow all the year round, isolating the village from the outside world. Due to the extreme poverty of life, there is no surplus food in the village for the elderly and children who are unable to produce. There is a custom here: in every household,...
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By Terrill 2022-12-16 19:19:42
In the place where the crows are frightened, the snow is white
It can be almost concluded that Imamura Shohei said, "I will write maggots until I die" to understand his films. There are many animals interspersed in the film, snakes, rats, fish, owls... each has its own meaning. Snakes and fish have a strong meaning of sex and reproduction, and the scenes of swallowing between some other creatures also show the competition between creatures In the relationship between survival, some people try to carve human beings, describe human nature...
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By Briana 2022-12-06 08:25:57
"Narayama Festival Kao" and Imamura Shohei: The Balance of People
After commenting on the new film and other good films that are not painful and itchy for a long time, I finally wrote a highlight. Because I plan to comment on "Thailand" and "The Grandmaster" in a while, so I'm starting to write old films now. Shohei Imamura's "Narayama Festival Exam" is a very shocking work. I still think that the best Japanese movie is "To Live", but the most refined work is "Narayama Festival Kao". There are all kinds of cruel balances among life, people and nature. These...
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By Mary 2022-12-03 18:10:29
Reflections on "The Examination of the Narayama Festival"
I finally saw the "maggots" that Director Shohei Imamura said today. The so-called maggots refer not only to people at the bottom, but also to the most primitive desires. I see two desires in this film - survival and sexuality, which are the most primitive and instinctive desires. What is survival? Bringing elderly people to the mountains and leaving them to fend for themselves is for survival, pushing one's own father off a cliff is for survival, throwing excess baby boys in the mud is...
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By Marcel 2022-11-28 10:54:06
snake eat mouse mouse eat snake
The snake represents the "owner" here, and the young man is called "the mouse". In the play, the mouse appears to eat a hibernating snake, and this hibernating snake I think is Aling Po. After Aling Po goes up the mountain, the camera turns. To a hibernating snake. It is an extremely rare phenomenon for rats to eat snakes (only in the case of lack of food). This should prove that the young people in the film put the old man on the mountain and let him die in order to survive, and the old man...
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By Astrid 2022-11-22 17:54:27
The poorer you are, the poorer you are, and the poorer you are. People are like animals without restraint. This reminds me of the incident in Fengxian. If I don't interfere, it will end like this sooner or later. Why are all the boys killed and not the girls? Because this labor force is enough to cultivate the poor land in my family. The number of women in the small mountain village has already begun to be scarce, so baby girls can be sold for money.
