Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Shoichi Ozawa — Katsuzô
- Fujio Tokita — Jinsaku
- Sanshō Shinsui — Zeniya Tadayan
- Seiji Kurasaki — Kesakichi
- Junko Takada — Matsuyan
- Mitsuko Baisho — Oei
- Taiji Tonoyama — Teruyan
- Ben Hiura — Yakimatsu
- Casey Takamine — Arayashiki
- Nenji Kobayashi — Tsune
- Nijiko Kiyokawa — Okane
- Directed
- Shōhei Imamura
- Written
- Shōhei Imamura
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 210 ratings
- Studio
- Toei Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
