Release Date

June, 25th, 2011

Running Time

119 min

Genre

Drama , Thriller , Feature

Color

Color

Screening Format

35mm

Screen Size

American Vista (1:1.85)

Sound Processing

-,Dolby SRD

Subtitle

English

[ Directed by ]

• TENGAN Daisuke

[ Produced by ]

• ZUSHI Kensuke
• KOGA Shunsuke
• MINATOYA Yasushi

[ Cast ]

• ASAOKA Ruriko ── SAITO Kayu
• BAISHO Mitsuko ── SHIINA Masari
• YAMAMOTO Yoko ── ASAMI Hikari
• KUSABUE Mitsuko ── MITSUYA Mei

[ Staff ]

• TENGAN Daisuke ── Screenplay
• SATO Yuya ── Original Story
• NAKAZAWA Toshiaki ── Production, Planning
• TOHYA Nobuyuki ── Production, Planning
• Meyna Co. ── Music
• FURUYA Takumi ── Cinematography
• INAGAKI Hisao ── Production Design
• ABE Hirohide ── Editor

[ Production Company ]

"DENDERA" Film Partners

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

TOEI

[ Production Studio ]

THE FOOL

[ Story ]

An unorthodox action film from director Tengan Daisuke that takes its inspiration from the same "ubasuteyama" legend featured in his father Imamura Shohei's The Ballad of Narayama, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Based on the novel of the same title by Sato Yuya, it follows the fate of an elderly woman who is forced to leave her village in order to reduce its population. In accordance with custom, seventy-year-old Kayu (Asaoka Ruriko) is taken to a holy site to await death. She closes her eyes and prays to be taken to heaven, but is amazed to realize she has been surrounded by other elderly women who had previously been abandoned in the mountain and were thought to have died.

[ Official Site ]

http://shochikufilms.com/product/dendera

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

London Film Festival 2011 World Cinema
Vancouver International Film Festival 2011 Dragons and Tigers film

[ Contact (International) ]

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