Will to Live
15/01/1999
2h



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It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Cast


Rentaro Mikuni
Yasukichi


Shinobu Otake
Tokuko


Naoko Ohtani
Yasukichi's lover


Akira Emoto
Doctor


Yoshiko Miyazaki
Tomoko


Choei Takahashi


Akaji Maro


Hideo Kanze
Director of a hospital
Aya Mizuno
Masaru Baba


Yuriko Hirooka
Hitoshi Kusanagi
Ai Toyama


Nao Omori


Rinko Kikuchi


Naomasa Musaka


Hisako Hara


Moeko Ezawa


Manabu Muraji
Yasumi Maezawa


Yôko Nakajima


Bokuzo Masana


Rei Natsume


Hideko Yoshida
Old woman at village


Masayuki Shionoya
Ei Hamura
Hiromi Nakazato


Masahiko Tsugawa
Village chief


Tokuko Watanabe
Village chief's lover


Eimei Esumi
Villager


Fujio Suga


Shun Ueda
Kikuma Shimoiizaka
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