Will to Live
生きたい
Release: 1999-01-15
·Runtime: 119m
·★ 6.3
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Cast
Nao Omori
Hisako Hara
Moeko Ezawa
Bokuzo Masana
Shun Ueda
Yuriko Hirooka
Masahiko Tsugawa
as Village chief
Eimei Esumi
as Villager
Fujio Suga
Naoko Ohtani
as Yasukichi's lover
Manabu Muraji
Rentaro Mikuni
as Yasukichi
Naomasa Musaka
Masayuki Shionoya
Akira Emoto
as Doctor
Rinko Kikuchi
Tokuko Watanabe
as Village chief's lover
Shinobu Otake
as Tokuko
Yoshiko Miyazaki
as Tomoko
Akaji Maro
Chōei Takahashi
Hideo Kanze
as Director of a hospital
Hideko Yoshida
as Old woman at village
