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SHOCHIKU PRESENTS
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Hear ye! We bring you now
for your viewing pleasure-
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Ballad of the Narayama,
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Based on the ancient
legend of Obasute.
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BALLAD OF
THE NARAYAMA
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Based on the novel by
Shichiro Fukazawa
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Director of photography
Hiroyuki Kusuda
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Art direction by Kisaku Ito
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"Nagauto" composed by
Rokuzaemon Kineya
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Film editing by
Yoshi Sugihara
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Players
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Kinuyo Tanaka
Teiji Takahashi
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Yuko Mochizuki
Danko Ichikawa
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Written for the screen
and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita
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A midst towering peaks
In the land of Shinano,
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Where a brooklet
winds through
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The valley of the forgotten
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Cicadas sing the mournful tale
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Of this secluded mountain village
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Hello!
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Does Orin of the tree-stump live here?
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Ah... you are Orin?
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Who might you be?
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Why... I have come from yonder village.
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Yes.. bearing tidings for you.
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Most gratifying! Please, come inside.
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The climb must have tasked you sorely
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Inviting in the weary courier,
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Impatient for the news he bears
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My tidings... concern a new widow
in our village.
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Her man's funeral was held 3 days ago.
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And her age?
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Forty-five
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Why... the same age as my Tatsuhei!
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A most favorable match.
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True.. True! Things could not have been
more favorable
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When can this one come to live with us?
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Ere the other can reply,
Grandson Kesakichi enters.
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I'm hungry! What is there to eat?
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There's some boiled beans there.
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Who wants belly-turning beans!
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Oh, yes.. old man Amaya was saying -
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Your grandma's teeth let her eat anything
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Pine cones, beans or what you have
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Nonsense!
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After all you have good teeth
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I have no more than 28!
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You can't count beyond 28.
You have more teeth.
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Kesakichi!
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Old granny has 33 teeth!
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Kesa!
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Granny hid herself in the shack;
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Now she has 33 devil's teeth.
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How frail and fickle this life of mortals.
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It will soon be a full year
since your mother died.
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Remember! You musn't play where it
is dangerous
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Or you'll fall over the cliff like your mother.
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Let's go!
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Tatsuhei... rejoice! You'll soon
have a new bride.
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Whe the strange look?
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A messenger has come from the next village.
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A widow of only the past two days
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and she's called Tama-yan
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I see! But how old is she?
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Your age... 45!
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And she can come after her 49 days
of mourning.
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Come... show some sings of rejoicing!
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Why? I've already passed that stage.
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The festival of the Dead approaches.
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Which means the same old song...
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Three years pass: one is 3 years older.
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When the New Year comes, I'll be 70..
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I must make my pilgrimage to Narayama.
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Such was the custom among the village elders.
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The summit of Narayama beckons all of such age.
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Even songs of the festival count off the years;
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Reminding all mortals their time also nears.
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Tatsuhei! Such timidity makes you ill company
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for my sacred ascent.
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Your new bride will soon be here.
Show some life!
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Mother, shall I carry you down?
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Yes! It will be wist to try it once.
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How is it? Am I heavy.. or light?
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You've grown lighter, mother.
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Narayama is steep.
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It will tax all your strength to carry me up.
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What ails you?
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No.. no! Your time hasn't come yet.
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Nonsense! I go to Narayama.
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with the advent of the New Year.
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Your bride is chosen...
I'm ready now.
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That's right.. there's still my teeth!
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What are you doing?
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My teeth shame me!
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As if one still eats like the young and hardy.
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I would go to the mountain as a senile,
toothless woman.
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Tree-stump Orin hid in the shack;
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Now she has 33 devil's teeth.
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Amaya!
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Come with me!
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Count for yourself how many teeth she has.
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I meant no harm! I learned it from your son,
Kesakichi.
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I'm sorry.
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Kesakichi!
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Festival time comes once a year;
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Bringing rice to our humble table.
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Granny hid herself in the shack;
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Now she has 33 devil's teeth.
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Kesa! After all she's gone through to raise you..
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Scum! You say she has devil's teeth?
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Granny has devil's teeth!
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Foolish one! You'll not get any food.
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The Seventh Month
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Brings the mist and rains.
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As one dines on his simple fare.
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One's heart grows heavy and the soul
grows damp;
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As one's dream each night.
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Becomes another stepping-stone.
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Oh, yes! We must also tell Kesakichi.
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Your new mother will be here soon.
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A bit early... but she might come for the Festival.
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With her here, it'll make things easier for you.
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Just a minute!
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We don't need a mother!
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I'll take a bride and we won't need a mother.
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My bride will cook.
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Fool! No more food for you.
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Elder brother wants to marry Matsu-yan
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You fool... shut up!
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Even at thirty it's not too late:
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one newcomer means another mouth.
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Ere the Festival thrice has come.
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Chestnut seeds into flowers bloom.
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Granny hid herself in the shack;
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Now she has 33 devil's teeth.
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Rice! I smell cooked rice!
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Foolish one! If you are so starved,
I will feed you.
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Disgraceful! Like a starving devil...
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Mata-yan, as a neigbor and old friend,
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let me tell you what people are saying.
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Mata-yan... they say you're so miserly.
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you've set nothing aside to celebrate
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your ascent of narayama.
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You're one year older than I am
and should have gone long ago.
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Rumors were that you'd go this spring
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but spring has come and gone...
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and it is already summer.
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Yes... you are an ill-starred one.
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Because you refuse to go to Narayama,
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your son denies you food and you've
fallen to scounging.
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Miserable... wretched creature!
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Rice... rice!
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Go ahead... eat!
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One may partake of white rice but once a year.
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For the Narayama Festival tonight,
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I've cooked a plentiful supply.
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Begging food from the neighbors, eh?
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You're a disgrace!
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All right... come along!
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It's the son's shame!
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Why not at least feed him at Festival time?
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Strange one.. have you come to
join our festival?
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Is this the home of Tatsuhei?
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Yes! Then you must be from the next village...
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You're Tama-yan?
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Yes, I am.
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They insisted at home that I'd come here in time.
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So... I came today.
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Come... enter your new home!
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With a hearty welcome for her son's bride;
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Though death waits in the mountains,
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There can be no regrets.
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Now... eat all you can.
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But... it is so much!
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I go now to hurry my son home.
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They insisted that I should eat here
instead of at home.
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so I left this morning without eating.
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Just eat your fill. No need to be shy.
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They hurried me off saying that
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Granny was a kind-hearted woman.
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Why didn't you come earlier?
I expected you yesterday.
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The messenger who came was my brother.
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He told me how wonderful you were.
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and I wanted to come right away.
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Why were you sitting on that stump?
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Why didn't you come right in?
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I was all alone... and it was rather embarrassing.
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My brother promised to come with me-
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But he drank too much festive wine last night -
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and all he could do was encourage me
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by saying how nice you were.
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If I had known, I would have gone for you myself.
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I wish you had. I would have carried you back here.
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Tama-yan!
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Oh... mother!
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Has it caught in your throat?
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Eat slowly... and as much as you wish.
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My... that was painful!
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When the New Year comes, I go up the mountain.
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My brother mentioned that, too.
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but he says that there's no hurry.
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He's wrong! The quicker I go,
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the more the Gods will favor me.
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Go on... eat everything you have there.
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After all.. I caught the fish myself.
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What? You mean you can catch fish?
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Yes, Tatsuhei, Kesakichi and the other villagers
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aren't too skilful.
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Suhe...
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They never catch as many as I do.
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Oh? It's almost a pity to eat them.
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I know where the fish hide.
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I'll show you the place some day.
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Go ahead... eat! I still have many dried
fishes set aside.
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I'll go call Tatsuhei.
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Pleased with her son's new bride,
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She departs in search of him.
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As a blushing bride in days gone by,
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None could match her beauty.
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In her days of widowhood, no scandal
marred her honor.
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During those painful years, never an accusing finger
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Why ruin a faultless life for a mere set of teeth,
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which is but an outward sign
of a drooling appetite?
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With such shame cast on my name,
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I dare not face the mountain Gods.
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Granny... is something wrong?
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Eat without haste and dine well.
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I'll soon bring Tatsuhei home.
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I'll go soon to my meet myDestiny
on the mountain-top...
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My teeth are gone.
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Festival time comes once a year;
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Bringing rice to our humble table.
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In our deaf and shivering dotage
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All our human bonds are severed.
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Tatsuhei!
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Tatsuhei... Tatsuhei!
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Where is Tatsuhei?
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Mother!
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Tatsuhei... your bride...
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This is Tama-yan... your new bride.
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Go... join her and dine together!
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White polished rice!
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Our annual festive dinner!
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Just once a year!
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Curses on it!
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Mother.. gorge yourself!
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I'll eat, too. If you can't chew, just swallow it.
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And more for you.
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This miserable wretched life!
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A thousand curses!
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Old hag of the tree-stump!
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You brats!
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The glowing crimson of the autumn maple
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Brightens the pathway of young ones in love.
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You should help harvest the rice.
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Nonsense! Without food,
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it's wiser not to develop an appetite.
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I'm hungry too,
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but my belly keeps growing larger and larger.
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I eat and eat but it's never enough.
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00:36:57,292 --> 00:36:59,558
Have some of these beans.
263
00:37:03,122 --> 00:37:06,919
My folks want me to move in with you.
264
00:37:07,319 --> 00:37:09,950
Can I go eat from tonight?
265
00:37:10,384 --> 00:37:14,581
Sure! Your belly will send Granny into the hills.
266
00:37:14,813 --> 00:37:18,911
Nobody wants a great grandchild.
267
00:37:20,467 --> 00:37:29,616
Even the autumn harvest of the gold-tinted grain
268
00:37:31,238 --> 00:37:48,277
Serves only to remind one of the passing time.
269
00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:06,579
The peaks of Narayama seem so close.
270
00:38:09,372 --> 00:38:12,536
Stop dreaming! Finish reaping the rice.
271
00:38:12,793 --> 00:38:22,701
The golden heads droop; wet with tear-like dew.
272
00:38:32,594 --> 00:38:35,626
With only this tiny plot of land.
273
00:38:36,826 --> 00:38:39,857
why need one reap in such haste?
274
00:39:07,538 --> 00:39:11,335
Mother... would you mind going ahead?
275
00:39:18,731 --> 00:39:19,530
What troubles you?
276
00:39:24,194 --> 00:39:28,191
An odd feeling that I was carrying her on my back.
277
00:39:48,878 --> 00:39:50,809
What ails you now?
278
00:39:56,639 --> 00:39:59,137
You've injured your leg!
279
00:40:00,536 --> 00:40:03,668
That son of yours refuses your food
280
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:06,466
but forces such a load on you?
281
00:40:07,331 --> 00:40:09,263
Come! It's not far now.
282
00:40:09,563 --> 00:40:12,194
Hold on to me and walk slowly.
283
00:40:16,226 --> 00:40:19,590
You are a foolish one!
284
00:40:19,789 --> 00:40:24,753
Instead of suffering so, go to Narayama.
285
00:40:25,884 --> 00:40:29,117
Narayama is the abode of the Gods.
286
00:40:29,516 --> 00:40:32,148
A place of bliss and blessing.
287
00:40:33,247 --> 00:40:37,144
I plan to go at the turn of the New Year.
288
00:40:37,411 --> 00:40:42,141
Never! I won't go to Narayama.
289
00:40:42,442 --> 00:40:45,073
They can't send me!
290
00:41:36,538 --> 00:41:39,037
when do you go to the hills?
291
00:41:39,503 --> 00:41:42,800
I plan my ascent for next year.
292
00:41:44,533 --> 00:41:48,031
Next year? Winter may bring early snow.
293
00:41:48,397 --> 00:41:51,761
Would it not be wiser to go sooner?
294
00:41:52,194 --> 00:41:55,259
The path up winds through 7 gorges.
295
00:41:55,458 --> 00:41:58,123
Snow will make it impossible.
296
00:41:58,789 --> 00:42:01,055
I have always been lucky.
297
00:42:03,053 --> 00:42:05,052
It will surely snow after I arrive
298
00:42:05,219 --> 00:42:08,583
as it did for Otori of Shioya.
299
00:42:10,781 --> 00:42:13,247
My grandpa went up in mid-summer.
300
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,511
That's stupid! One live on too long.
301
00:42:16,777 --> 00:42:20,675
It is wisest to go when snow is expected
302
00:42:21,109 --> 00:42:24,773
but before it becomes too deep.
303
00:42:25,206 --> 00:42:26,605
The sooner the better!
304
00:42:26,803 --> 00:42:27,937
The later the better!
305
00:42:28,137 --> 00:42:29,569
The sooner the better!
306
00:42:29,769 --> 00:42:32,367
It's better not to rush it.
307
00:43:58,110 --> 00:44:00,708
Thief... thief!
308
00:44:03,739 --> 00:44:05,005
Prowler!
309
00:44:06,703 --> 00:44:11,266
Make the culprit do penance to our
sacred Narayama!
310
00:44:12,066 --> 00:44:14,264
Tatsuhei! Kesakichi!
311
00:44:14,598 --> 00:44:15,831
Act calmly!
312
00:44:16,130 --> 00:44:17,863
Matsu-yan, get up!
313
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,660
Make the culprit do penance!
314
00:44:25,125 --> 00:44:27,523
Leave your sandals at home!
315
00:44:33,585 --> 00:44:34,618
The thief must do penance!
316
00:45:52,532 --> 00:45:54,264
Carry off all the food!
317
00:46:45,131 --> 00:46:47,556
Amaya was the thief?
318
00:47:09,414 --> 00:47:12,278
The curi making off with my bale.
319
00:47:12,544 --> 00:47:16,543
It's in his blood! His father also did penance.
320
00:47:18,008 --> 00:47:18,974
We'll divide this up. Line up here!
321
00:47:19,009 --> 00:47:19,940
We'll divide this up. Line up here!
322
00:47:34,431 --> 00:47:36,497
Come on! Hand it out.
323
00:47:47,622 --> 00:47:51,752
Look! This one dared to wear sandals.
324
00:47:59,945 --> 00:48:00,712
Wretched dotard!
325
00:48:01,279 --> 00:48:03,577
My leg.. it is injured!
326
00:48:05,676 --> 00:48:10,906
You mountain-evading dotard!
Come, give him a beating!
327
00:48:13,803 --> 00:48:16,701
Wait.. withhold your ire!
328
00:48:21,498 --> 00:48:23,230
This one has come prepared to do battle
despite a lame leg.
329
00:48:24,297 --> 00:49:06,902
Take his share and let him go.
330
00:49:14,396 --> 00:49:18,926
After land-taxes, even we won't have enough food
331
00:49:19,226 --> 00:49:21,558
for this winter.
332
00:49:27,022 --> 00:49:31,017
Amaya has 12 dependents... I have 8.
333
00:49:33,017 --> 00:49:37,280
But we've more adults with healthier appetites.
334
00:49:40,662 --> 00:49:43,131
For one thing, we are too careless about how we eat.
335
00:49:43,310 --> 00:49:45,705
Unless we ration the food,
336
00:49:45,708 --> 00:49:48,337
Matsu-yan's appetite will be our ruin.
337
00:49:48,372 --> 00:49:51,064
She didn't come to be Kesakichi's wife.
338
00:49:51,507 --> 00:49:55,049
The way she eats, her family probably drove her out.
339
00:50:05,094 --> 00:50:07,426
The villagers are saying
340
00:50:07,827 --> 00:50:10,356
stealing is in the Amaya blood.
341
00:50:10,624 --> 00:50:14,023
They want to wipe out the whole family.
342
00:50:14,587 --> 00:50:17,186
When Amaya's father did penance
343
00:50:17,717 --> 00:50:19,751
in the wilds of Narayama,
344
00:50:19,983 --> 00:50:23,381
he survived the winter by eating roots.
345
00:50:23,849 --> 00:50:28,678
They claim he hid food up there for such emergencies.
346
00:50:30,759 --> 00:50:32,069
Beans... again?
347
00:50:32,310 --> 00:50:35,022
Why... they're boiled about right!
348
00:50:35,735 --> 00:50:37,758
Why not show some reserve?
349
00:50:38,176 --> 00:50:41,336
No loss! The volume increases...
350
00:50:41,668 --> 00:50:42,490
if one just adds water.
351
00:50:42,735 --> 00:50:45,981
But if one doesn't eat.. it disappears?
352
00:50:49,299 --> 00:50:51,631
Really? Is that true?
353
00:50:52,330 --> 00:50:55,128
Kesakichi! Slap the girl's face.
354
00:50:55,328 --> 00:50:59,858
I was first in line and deserve the biggest share.
355
00:51:00,392 --> 00:51:03,722
Eat all you want... here!
356
00:51:07,053 --> 00:51:12,782
All the potatoes we divided up last night were tiny!
357
00:51:15,614 --> 00:51:18,712
I thought my crops were rather poor
358
00:51:19,011 --> 00:51:21,010
but I was being robbed.
359
00:51:21,209 --> 00:51:24,874
Everyone claims he lost more than he got.
360
00:51:24,108 --> 00:51:27,058
Not given us.. it was just returned!
361
00:51:27,669 --> 00:51:29,705
We must take our revenge for this!
362
00:51:31,128 --> 00:51:35,649
After dark, they'll come sneaking out to steal more.
363
00:51:36,986 --> 00:51:40,544
Unless we do something, we'll never sleep well again.
364
00:51:41,532 --> 00:51:43,562
We must wipe them out!
365
00:51:43,553 --> 00:51:45,701
But... how? There are 12 of them.
366
00:51:46,029 --> 00:51:49,477
Dig a big hole and bury them all.
367
00:51:49,673 --> 00:51:52,730
Nonsense! Where could one bury so many?
368
00:51:54,368 --> 00:51:58,322
It's no laughing matters!
The villagers are serious.
369
00:52:04,501 --> 00:52:06,142
Such ill-omened chatter!
370
00:52:06,769 --> 00:52:08,789
Even the crow crics ominously.
371
00:52:09,559 --> 00:52:12,976
I've a feeling Death will be out stalking tonight.
372
00:52:20,783 --> 00:52:25,837
I wonder if the Amayas will begin disappearing...
373
00:52:26,247 --> 00:52:29,230
one after another?
374
00:53:20,330 --> 00:53:25,526
Granny... perhaps we should go to the hills next year.
375
00:53:34,152 --> 00:53:37,717
I'm glad you now begin to understand.
376
00:53:39,116 --> 00:53:42,049
I feel greatly relieved.
377
00:53:45,046 --> 00:53:49,210
My mother in the next village made the ascent.
378
00:53:50,442 --> 00:53:53,906
My mother-in-law also went that way.
379
00:53:54,373 --> 00:53:57,838
It is only natural that I should go.
380
00:54:54,533 --> 00:54:57,264
One's infamy sung by posterity
381
00:54:57,530 --> 00:55:00,163
in return for this sad existence...
382
00:55:00,529 --> 00:55:03,437
Ginyan of the reeds; a shameless hag.
383
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,808
She lived to see her great grandchild.
384
00:55:08,267 --> 00:55:11,501
I'll not be humiliated like this.
385
00:55:11,521 --> 00:55:13,154
Don't be concerned!
386
00:55:13,453 --> 00:55:17,151
I'll abandon the new-born child in the hills.
387
00:55:18,117 --> 00:55:21,480
They'll not sing such songs about you.
388
00:55:21,781 --> 00:55:25,046
Nonsense! I'll desert the brat myself.
389
00:55:25,412 --> 00:55:27,411
Didn't I promise I would?
390
00:55:27,643 --> 00:55:29,708
Yes, and I wish you would.
391
00:55:30,107 --> 00:55:36,737
Father dear, the day now nears
392
00:55:37,004 --> 00:55:43,800
For you to make the fateful trip.
393
00:55:45,599 --> 00:55:47,696
Hear! That's the spirit!
394
00:55:48,130 --> 00:55:54,725
To bear old Granny into the hills
395
00:55:55,058 --> 00:56:01,053
Where land-crabs crawl amuck.
396
00:56:06,705 --> 00:56:10,840
Only birds that sing at night.
397
00:56:11,330 --> 00:56:15,344
Only birds that sing at night.
398
00:56:16,707 --> 00:56:20,774
Tatsuhei... let me gaze upon you
399
00:56:21,208 --> 00:56:24,138
while it is still possible.
400
00:56:26,271 --> 00:56:29,602
Does the thought still disturb you?
401
00:56:30,701 --> 00:56:33,999
But you will take me up next year?
402
00:57:06,363 --> 00:57:11,340
Tama-yan.. you are a better wife
403
00:57:11,673 --> 00:57:14,937
than the one who is now dead.
404
00:57:15,363 --> 00:57:18,502
Tonight I shall teach you
405
00:57:18,769 --> 00:57:21,933
where one may catch the river fish.
406
00:58:50,183 --> 00:58:56,402
This is it.. reach into this hole
407
00:58:56,768 --> 00:59:00,700
and you can snatch the fish.
408
00:59:01,334 --> 00:59:02,764
Don't tell anyone!
409
00:59:03,198 --> 00:59:08,028
Right under that boulder.. don't forget!
410
01:00:19,380 --> 01:00:21,337
Kesachi is out, too.
411
01:00:24,206 --> 01:00:29,061
It will be wise not to speak of the Amayas any more.
412
01:00:43,958 --> 01:00:51,391
Like unto a bright spring day.
413
01:00:51,626 --> 01:00:58,288
The pleasant glow of one's abode.
414
01:01:05,941 --> 01:01:11,802
Where one's dreams live on
415
01:01:12,154 --> 01:01:28,301
Throughout the fleeting years.
416
01:01:31,533 --> 01:01:38,926
Mayhap this daily life we lead
417
01:01:42,796 --> 01:01:47,783
Is naught but a passing dream.
418
01:02:17,012 --> 01:02:20,530
This night I invite the elders who have
been to Narayama.
419
01:02:22,378 --> 01:02:27,321
The New Year is yet 4 days away
but I wish it over with.
420
01:02:27,322 --> 01:02:29,201
Wait until the New Year.
421
01:02:29,405 --> 01:02:32,923
What's a few days?
422
01:02:33,197 --> 01:02:36,642
And I would go before my great grandchild comes.
423
01:02:39,490 --> 01:02:42,883
Go inform the elders.
424
01:02:43,316 --> 01:02:47,281
Hurry... ere they go to their daily tasks.
425
01:02:56,885 --> 01:03:02,237
See! The snow flakes already begin their wintry dance.
426
01:03:03,570 --> 01:03:06,201
It will surely snow on the day
427
01:03:06,468 --> 01:03:09,198
I ascend the mountainous heights.
428
01:03:12,333 --> 01:03:13,732
Go, now!
429
01:03:14,030 --> 01:03:20,228
Or tomorrow I shall go to the mountains by myself. Go!
430
01:04:27,488 --> 01:04:31,796
The climb will be a bitter one
431
01:04:32,995 --> 01:04:36,952
and we are greatly obliged to you.
432
01:04:50,616 --> 01:04:53,917
During the ascent.
433
01:04:54,634 --> 01:04:59,071
one shall abide by the formalities set forth:
434
01:04:59,991 --> 01:05:04,827
Upon arrival at the mountain,
435
01:05:05,084 --> 01:05:07,713
no words shall pass between you.
436
01:05:32,685 --> 01:05:35,359
During the ascent,
437
01:05:35,715 --> 01:05:43,001
one shall abide by the formalities set forth:
438
01:05:43,305 --> 01:05:45,885
When setting forth on your journey,
439
01:05:45,986 --> 01:05:51,067
no eye must watch you depart.
440
01:06:15,208 --> 01:06:17,440
During the ascent,
441
01:06:17,772 --> 01:06:22,636
one shall abide by the formalities set forth:
442
01:06:24,035 --> 01:06:29,064
When returning from the mountain,
443
01:06:29,365 --> 01:06:33,995
one must not turn to look back.
444
01:06:54,262 --> 01:06:56,126
The path to the mountain
445
01:06:56,500 --> 01:07:00,419
skirts the foot of the rear hills,
446
01:07:00,844 --> 01:07:06,082
passes the holy tree and winds on.
447
01:07:07,304 --> 01:07:11,567
As one ascend the third mountain, a lake will appear.
448
01:07:12,225 --> 01:07:17,641
Pass the lake and climb the fourth mountain,
449
01:07:18,047 --> 01:07:21,794
beyond the stone stairs.
450
01:07:22,170 --> 01:07:23,718
From the top thereof,
451
01:07:24,098 --> 01:07:26,926
Narayama may be seen beyond the gorge.
452
01:07:27,087 --> 01:07:32,123
Proceed onward with the gorge to your right
453
01:07:32,489 --> 01:07:34,455
and hill to the left.
454
01:07:35,187 --> 01:07:38,019
The distance thereto is 5 miles.
455
01:07:38,451 --> 01:07:41,350
The path then winds upward past
456
01:07:41,649 --> 01:07:44,381
the Gorge of the Seven Bends.
457
01:07:45,347 --> 01:07:47,946
The path which passes this gorge
458
01:07:52,016 --> 01:07:55,695
will lead you on to Narayama.
459
01:07:55,350 --> 01:08:01,234
Proceed upward among the oaks and
460
01:08:01,593 --> 01:08:05,541
the Gods will be awaiting you.
461
01:10:01,382 --> 01:10:05,853
If one wishes, one may turn back
462
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:10,115
at the Gorge of the Seven Bends.
463
01:10:13,246 --> 01:10:22,142
I'm just telling you this as it is customary to do so.
464
01:10:34,435 --> 01:10:37,664
Simple as such duties seem,
465
01:10:38,064 --> 01:10:42,294
A companion's lot is no easy one.
466
01:10:43,127 --> 01:10:46,359
The heavy burden on one's back;
467
01:10:46,658 --> 01:10:50,090
A leaden weight upon one's heart.
468
01:10:51,619 --> 01:10:53,423
What are you up to?
469
01:10:54,914 --> 01:10:56,419
You would escape you dotard?
470
01:11:10,676 --> 01:11:12,008
Filthy dotard!
471
01:11:45,222 --> 01:11:46,148
What goes on here?
472
01:11:49,207 --> 01:11:50,075
What is it?
473
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:52,305
Cut his bonds and ran off!
474
01:11:53,311 --> 01:11:56,985
Mata-yan.. know you not this song?
475
01:11:57,318 --> 01:11:59,943
In our deaf and shivering dotage,
476
01:12:00,336 --> 01:12:02,436
All our human bonds are severed.
477
01:12:02,891 --> 01:12:06,437
Do you wish all ties with the Gods
478
01:12:06,739 --> 01:12:09,270
and with you son cut off now?
479
01:12:09,636 --> 01:12:11,368
No... I won't go!
480
01:12:12,500 --> 01:12:13,966
Put it off tonight.
481
01:12:14,367 --> 01:12:16,698
Come! I'll take you home.
482
01:12:21,362 --> 01:12:23,592
Shut up! Why all the fuss?
483
01:12:26,300 --> 01:12:30,193
Send all the old ones into the hills!
484
01:12:30,614 --> 01:12:31,653
Kesakichi! I plan to go tomorrow night
485
01:12:31,954 --> 01:12:34,620
without your telling me.
486
01:12:41,735 --> 01:12:49,343
Cold the moon of a dying year
487
01:12:49,675 --> 01:12:56,338
Overlooks this anguished parting.
488
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:23,719
Plucked into ragged shreds, the clouds
above float by.
489
01:13:33,246 --> 01:13:39,908
Torn now all human heartstrings,
490
01:13:40,575 --> 01:13:47,204
Between love and filial affection.
491
01:14:04,991 --> 01:14:10,554
Bonds linking a mother and son
492
01:14:11,254 --> 01:14:17,850
Are inter-woven like fine spun yarn.
493
01:14:25,545 --> 01:14:32,206
With the fleetly passing months,
494
01:14:32,873 --> 01:14:39,535
Comes this fateful parting day.
495
01:14:46,130 --> 01:14:52,826
Hoisted high upon his shoulder.
496
01:14:53,492 --> 01:15:00,188
A son bears of his loving parent.
497
01:15:11,081 --> 01:15:16,843
- You must be Tama-yan!
Come.. enter your new home.
498
01:15:17,577 --> 01:15:19,607
- No need to be shy!
499
01:15:19,808 --> 01:15:23,172
- Eat slowly.. and as much as you wish.
500
01:15:23,939 --> 01:15:28,768
- When the New Year comes,
I shall go up the mountain.
501
01:15:31,632 --> 01:15:36,963
For this kind and loving mother
502
01:15:37,297 --> 01:15:42,625
Comes the day of fated parting.
503
01:15:56,433 --> 01:16:01,144
Mother... are you not chilled?
504
01:16:06,454 --> 01:16:14,005
Where could be a mother's son
505
01:16:14,371 --> 01:16:20,966
Who writhes not on such a day?
506
01:16:24,582 --> 01:16:28,590
Mother.. the moon now hides behind the clouds.
507
01:16:32,265 --> 01:16:36,589
Nearby looms the Narayama;
508
01:16:40,700 --> 01:17:04,569
Above the cold and whistling winds.
509
01:17:12,132 --> 01:17:14,730
Mother.. it becomes colder!
510
01:17:14,996 --> 01:17:17,628
It will probably bring the snow.
511
01:17:55,413 --> 01:17:59,879
Mother.. why will you not speak to me?
512
01:18:00,587 --> 01:18:04,862
This is not Narayama. One may speak
without offense.
513
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:12,118
Mother..
514
01:20:13,164 --> 01:20:17,401
this must be the so-called Gorge of the Seven Bends.
515
01:20:21,977 --> 01:20:25,482
We will soon be there.
516
01:21:36,468 --> 01:21:41,690
Mother.. speak to me! Just one more word..
517
01:21:42,998 --> 01:21:49,774
We now ascend Narayama...
speak to me just once more!
518
01:30:32,292 --> 01:30:35,357
Help.. save me!
519
01:30:39,188 --> 01:30:41,087
You'd do this to your sire?
520
01:30:42,896 --> 01:30:44,042
Mother!
521
01:32:30,945 --> 01:32:34,410
Mother! It actually begins to snow!
522
01:32:40,040 --> 01:32:41,172
Mother!
523
01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:51,899
Mother!
524
01:32:54,731 --> 01:32:56,662
You must be so cold!
525
01:33:03,226 --> 01:33:06,056
Mother.. you have been fortunate!
526
01:33:06,389 --> 01:33:08,987
The snow did come, after all...
527
01:33:09,553 --> 01:33:11,653
On the day of your ascent!
528
01:33:26,043 --> 01:33:29,658
Mother... the snow came.. after all...
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When we become seventy, we'll be
going to the mountain too.
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