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.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Shinobu Otake, Naoko Ohtani, Akira Emoto, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Chōei Takahashi, Akaji Maro, Hideo Kanze, Aya Mizuno, Masaru Baba, Yuriko Hirooka, Hitoshi Kusanagi, Ai Toyama
Crew: Kaneto Shindō (Director), Kaneto Shindō (Writer), Jirô Shindô (Producer), Hikaru Hayashi (Music), Yoshiyuki Miyake (Director of Photography)