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The Ballad of Narayama
楢山節考
1983 · Film · 130 min
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
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.
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This reminds me a Japanese movie I saw long time ago: The Ballad of Narayama (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084390/)
which is about a village where old people have to climb a mountain and left there to die once they reached certain age; this is to save limited resource to younger
a sad story, hope it won't become somehow true in future