The Ballad of Narayama (#645) USED Kani lives under the repressive care

lives under the repressive care of her pious elderly mother

The mind's innermost fears become reality for the crew members of the Quest when they land on the barren planet Morganthus hoping to find the missing crew members of the starship Remus — only to discover something deadly waiting for them

Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson)

colonized and free

The Ballad of Narayama (#645) USED Kani lives under the repressive careThis haunting, kabuki inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin (Ugetsus Kinuyo Tanaka), a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed