The Lasting Persimmon
Risaki is coming back home to her wintery countryside, Yamagata which is 400 km away from Tokyo. There is seemingly unchanging snowy life of her beloved family and home village-snow shoveling, making pickles, bridges over a big river covered with snow, and kaki fruits left unharvested on its tree.
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The Ballad of NarayamaFilm, 1983Rated 7.5 on TMDB
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.







