December 16th, 7:00PM in Garland 104 (2441 E. Hartford)
It is the tradition of a particular small Japanese village that if someone lives until their seventieth year, they are taken to a remote mountain and left to die. In this village, and old woman named Orin is one year away from her date with destiny. Instead of fighting against her future journey, she decides to set her affairs in order and prepare for her journey.
Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name, it was the forth Japanese film to win the Palme d'Or. Its director Shohei Imamura was famous for taking on topics relating to recent Japanese history and society and providing a somewhat subversively satirical interpretation. This was actually a remake of an earlier 1958 film of the same name, bur the director has clearly put his own personal stamp on the material, especially in the almost oppressive realism of rural conditions in the early Nineteenth Century.
Japan, Director Shohei Imamura, Cast Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto and Mitsuko Baisho, 130 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles
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