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Will to Live (1999)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Overview
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.
Length 119 minutes
Actors
Rentarô Mikuni | Shinobu Ōtake | Naoko Ôtani | Akira Emoto | Yoshiko Miyazaki | Chôei Takahashi | Akaji Maro | Hideo Kanze | 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 | Bokuzō Masana | Rei Natsume | Hideko Yoshida | Masayuki Shionoya | Ei Hamura | Hiromi Nakazato | Masahiko Tsugawa | Tokuko Watanabe | Eimei Esumi | Fujio Suga | Shun Ueda | Kikuma Shimoiizaka