Will to Live

Name: Will to Live
Director: Kaneto Shindō
Genre: Drama
Released: 1999-01-15
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Shinobu Otake, Naoko Ohtani, Akira Emoto, Yoshiko Miyazaki

1999

1h 59m

Drama

Director: Kaneto Shindō

Writer: Kaneto Shindō

Overview

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.