Will to Live

Will to Live

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.

Cast for Will to Live...

Naoko Ohtani
Yasukichi's lover
Hideo Kanze
Director of a hospital
Hideko Yoshida
Old woman at village
Masahiko Tsugawa
Village chief
Tokuko Watanabe
Village chief's lover
Eimei Esumi
Villager