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.
Release Date
January 15, 1999Runtime
119 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Kaneto ShindōWritten by
Kaneto ShindōLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
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ReleasedCast
Rentaro Mikuni
YasukichiShinobu Otake
TokukoNaoko Ohtani
Yasukichi's loverAkira Emoto
DoctorYoshiko Miyazaki
TomokoChōei Takahashi
Akaji Maro
Hideo Kanze
Director of a hospitalYuriko Hirooka
Nao Omori
Rinko Kikuchi
Naomasa Musaka
Hisako Hara
Moeko Ezawa
Manabu Muraji
Bokuzo Masana
Hideko Yoshida
Old woman at villageMasayuki Shionoya
Masahiko Tsugawa
Village chiefTokuko Watanabe
Village chief's loverEimei Esumi
VillagerFujio Suga
Cast33 cast members