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Will to Live
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.
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Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Shinobu Otake
Naoko Ohtani
Akira Emoto
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Choei Takahashi
Akaji Maro
Hideo Kanze
Yuriko Hirooka
Nao OmoriDetails
- Director
- Kaneto Shindō
- Writers
- Kaneto Shindō
- Release date
- January 15, 1999
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Original language
- Japanese
- Studios
- Kindai Eiga Kyokai
