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Will to Live

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Will to Live — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • January 15, 1999
  • Runtime
  • 119 min
  • Genres
  • Drama
  • Director
  • Kaneto Shindō

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Will to Live — Cast

Rentaro Mikuni photo Rentaro Mikuni Yasukichi Shinobu Otake photo Shinobu Otake Tokuko Naoko Ohtani photo Naoko Ohtani Yasukichi's lover Akira Emoto photo Akira Emoto Doctor Yoshiko Miyazaki photo Yoshiko Miyazaki Tomoko Choei Takahashi photo Choei Takahashi Akaji Maro photo Akaji Maro Hideo Kanze photo Hideo Kanze Director of a hospital

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