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Shohei Imamura's “Ballad Of Narayama” is a work created by combining two short novels, “Ballad Of Narayama” of Fukasawa Shichihayi and “The Man of the Tohoku”. It is an extremely closed mountain village in the Tohoku region of Japan The downward custom, Ubasute, is the center of the narrative. In the film, Ubasute is a custom to take an old man who is called “Narayama Maily” to the mountain. Some people in this village refuse to abandon this custom, but most of them are willing to accept it. When winter comes, they are carried to the child's house and headed for Narayama. Orin is the elderly man ahead of Narayama Maily, but carefully prepared to go to the mountains, and in the winter, he is carried to his son Narayama by the son of Datsuhei. Films and original novels gaze at the reality of postwar Japan in a cool way through conventional narratives or the overturned composition of legendary narratives that are willing to accept such customs. The narrative depicting the background of time and space in the close range of the end of the Shogunate is about insisting on the nature of life or the conflict with nature in the course of the process that the Japanese had to suffer for about 100 years. It can be said to be various experiences such as war, ruins after revival and revival. And the film goes back one step further and stare back at Japan in the reality of the 1980s when prosperity and prosperity came again. And it is demanding reflection on the real life while looking at the relationship between human being as a part of nature and creatures symbiotic in nature as part of the same nature.