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.
Acting
Baisho and Asaoka deliver volcanic performances.
Cinematography
Snow that feels like a character watching them.
Writing
Tengan's script refuses easy redemption.
Director
Daisuke Tengan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a novel by Yuya Sato, itself inspired by real Japanese ubasute folklore where elderly were abandoned on mountains.
Tengan (son of Shohei Imamura) deliberately cast 1960s-70s Japanese cinema icons to weaponize audience nostalgia against them.
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