Program Note
There is a village on the verge of its 167th annual event. Now, they dispose of useless parents in the village! This act of abandoning the elderly, known as ///The Ballad of Narayama//, is well-known in folklore, but the approach adopted in this work is cruel yet comedic. The director unfolds the irreconcilable gap between the different generations as black comedy. (Kristin JI)