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Jun 25, 2011 · Dendera: Directed by Daisuke Tengan. With Ruriko Asaoka, Mitsuko Baishô, Yôko Yamamoto, Mitsuko Kusabue. Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead work together to build their own village named "Dendera."
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Movie:DenderaRomaji:DenderaJapanese:デンデラDirector: Daisuke TenganFifty elderly women are bandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.
In 1983, Shohei Imamura’s The Ballad Of Narayama saw a Japanese village’s long-held laws decree that its elders must die when they turn 70. This ensured there were enough resources for the up and coming generations to survive until it was their turn.
Invincible Asia. Elderly Japanese women get send up the mountain to lay down and die but build a tribe of bear-killing grannies instead, who decide to take revenge on the village who made them outcasts.
- Daisuke Tengan
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Jun 25, 2011 · Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.
In a small Japanese village, local law dictates that old people must die when they reach the age of 70 to make way for the next generation. When an old woman named Kayu is carried up the mountain and left to die by her son, she wakes to find herself in Dendera.
