The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura, 1983): Garden Cinema, 3pm
This film, part of the Japanese Golden Age season at the Garden Cinema, is also screening on March 28th and 30th. You can find the full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
'This harsh and beautiful 1983 film by Shohei Imamura (Pigs and Battleships)
marks a turning point in his career, away from the violence and
confrontationalism of his earlier films and toward an almost Ozu-like
acceptance of human fate. The story is set in an impoverished mountain
village, where the law of survival requires that every citizen over 70
be put to death to make room for new mouths at the table. Orin (Sumiko
Sakamoto in a sublime performance) is approaching the limit but doesn't
want to die until she finds a new wife for her widowed son Tatsuhei (Ken
Ogata). Imamura's rough sexual humor is still in evidence, but now it
has taken on a dark tone: to make love is to flirt with death. The snow
that falls in the final scene is a blanket of oblivion, a complex image
that offers hope through loss. In Japanese with subtitles.'
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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