@jack.phillipes: In Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 film The Ballad of Narayama, there's one custom you won't forget. In this dirt-poor mountain village, the moment you turn 80, your own family carries you up the snowy mountain and leaves you there to die — one less mouth to feed through the winter. And old Orin? She's so eager to go that she smashes out her own healthy teeth with a stone mortar, just to look old enough to "deserve" it.

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Tuesday 16 June 2026 15:30:04 GMT