The Ballad of Narayama

Both are adaptations of Shichir? Fukazawa's book of the same name. Their aesthetics and cinematography are very different, which can lead to interesting comparisons and reflections because they approach the same material with very particular perspectives.

Like the Japanese Ballad of Narayama, Kim Ki-young’s Goryeojang (???) envisages a world in which the old are expected to sacrifice themselves for the young, but unlike either Keisuke Kinoshita or the later Shohei Imamura, Kim struggles to find nobility in adherence to such a cruel and inhuman tradition.