Today let everyone know about Japan and see how repugnant their bad customs are, in the 1950s, Japan had a deep mountain, it was isolated from the world. No one has ever come out, no one has ever gone in, and it is either impassable or waterless or electricity-free, and it is common for people to starve to death.
The people who live there have two great vices, one is that the old man reaches the age of 70 and is carried by his children on the mountain to fend for himself. Second, only the eldest son in the family is eligible to marry and have children, and the younger brothers are not worthy to start a family. This old village is not only backward but also very poor, eating only potatoes all year round, you think they will eat tired, that is a big mistake, but they only produce potatoes here, there is no need to pick.
When winter falls, every household stores enough potatoes for the family to eat, and in order to save food, the village has a special custom that the elderly are not allowed to live past 70 years old. Some are sick and die, some die unexpectedly, the family will be thankful, less than one person to eat, one more person will not be starved to death.
Therefore, the old man in this village, at the age of 69, began to prepare for his own aftermath, and when he was 70 years old, he would be carried up the mountain by his son and resigned to his fate. The heroine of the film is a 69-year-old man, her name is Grandma, her body is surprisingly strong and tough, working no less than her children, not eating much, the key is that her son is still quite filial piety.
Despite this, Grandma has always adhered to the rules of the village, not wanting to break the ancestral system that has been stubbornly maintained for many years, and if there is less than one person in the family to eat, everyone's life will be better. Next year, I will start going up the mountain, and Grandma has a few things in her heart that she can't rest assured, and she wants to deal with it before going up the mountain. At home, she is used to being in charge, and she must arrange all the big and small things before she can be in the mood to go on the road.
The first thing in front of him is to do marriage for the eldest son, the eldest son is called Chen Ping, is a man with great affection, at the beginning of the period he had a beautiful wife, accidentally fell into the cliff, he has not yet married. When everyone was eating, Grandma was thinking that the family had always been her own Zhang Luo, and it was time to have a hostess to replace her class.
In the mouth of the merchant, I learned that there was a widow in the neighboring village, although her appearance was a little ugly, but she was hard-working and had infinite strength, and marrying into the family door could not only handle the housework, but also help Chen Ping to help work in the field and reduce the burden for him. Grandma knows the eldest son too well, he is gentle and generous, in his mind, no matter how old he lives, his father and mother should not be thrown on the mountain to fend for themselves, that is immoral, unkind, and even more unfilial.
I didn't expect that Grandma didn't want her eldest son to break the village rules, which would be unlucky and the family would suffer. So she came up with a way, on the big water tank, she knocked off her front door teeth, smiled and said to the eldest son, the teeth are gone, I should go up the mountain, seeing the eldest son tearfully nodding, Grandma put her mind at ease.
The next thing is the youngest son, who is also the most reassuring to the grandmother, because the rules of the village are so, the family can only marry the eldest son, and the other children are not worthy of the family. When the children are older, they will have physiological needs, which is an essential survival rule in nature, although they are not allowed to get married, but they can find someone to solve it by themselves. Grandma's youngest son was born with a foul odor, and no one wanted to go near him, let alone a woman, he was in his forties this year and had never been close to a woman.
Grandma only wants to help her young son before going up the mountain, to complete the wish of being a man, it happens that at night the man in the neighbor's house is critically ill, confess his wife's last words, and must promise him to have one time with all the single men in the village, and the curse of the family will be resolved. Coincidentally, the young son of Grandma outside the door heard, and he immediately knelt on the ground and begged the bodhisattva to bless the day to come quickly.
Grandma's youngest son was preparing for the arrival of the neighbor's widow every day, and it had been several days in a row, and she had been to the single man of the whole village, but she had not come to him. After this incident, Grandma's young son was devastated and had nowhere to vent, he smashed things at home, Grandma was very distressed, so she lost an old face and begged the neighbor widow to have a good night with her son.
The neighbor widow said, you also know the stench of your young son, don't say once, even if you are close to him, you will vomit up and down, and Grandma knows that she is disappointed and leaves. Grandma really bothered about her young son, she would ask others every day, did she know a woman who had lost her sense of smell? Kung Fu pays off, and there is really a widowed old man in the neighboring village who has lost his sense of smell.
Grandma finally saw hope, she found the old man, kind words of persuasion, just as a good thing, to help a good person, with the emotional card to impress the old man. Grandma finally completed the wish of the younger son, he can go up the mountain with peace of mind, who knows that the sky has caused man-made disasters, the grandson has made the girl's belly bigger, and he has no choice but to take it home to raise. The key is that there is not enough food in the family to eat, and suddenly there are more people to eat, and the family that is not rich itself is even worse.
In the following days, Grandma found that the amount of food for her grandson's girlfriend was amazing, and one person ate double portions, not only that, but she also secretly took grain to help her family. For this village, the family of the mother was buried alive, just because of the serious consequences, Grandma just got angry and did not say anything, but the grandchildren's girlfriends were getting more and more excessive, and grandma saw that the food was not enough for the winter, and she began to tell the grandchildren's girlfriends about stealing grain to help the mother's family.
At this time, the whole village is unwilling, for stealing things to help the mother's family is a disgraceful act, how important is the grain, this is just to let the mother's family live, let the in-laws starve to death. So he used a big punishment, dug a big pit in accordance with the village rules, and buried his girlfriend and his mother's family a total of 8 families alive. The family's affairs were basically handled, Grandma no longer had to worry about, saw the weather winter came, she let the eldest son Chen Ping carry himself up the mountain, she should leave.
Although Chen Ping did not want to end up with his mother, he had to do so, Chen Ping walked on the steep path with his mother on his back, the rules of the village, when the old man went up the mountain, he was not allowed to let people see, in the dark night, on the road can not turn back, can not talk. Although the road was difficult to walk, the time of the night finally reached the top, Chen Ping and Grandma clearly saw the white bones on the ground, and it was difficult to breathe everywhere.
Grandma saw a blank space and told her son to let him put himself down, and she wanted to be peaceful in that pure land. Chen Ping hugged his mother like a child and cried bitterly, Grandma slapped Chen Ping fiercely and said that she could not break the rules of the village, Chen Ping heard this sentence and got up to wipe away her tears and walked down the mountain.
On the way, Chen Ping saw another villager carrying his father up the mountain, the old man was unwilling to abide by the village rules, did not want to die, but the son did not give him a chance to live, he pushed his father off the cliff. Because he doesn't want this winter, because of the shortage of food, the family is going to starve people to death, in the final analysis, he is still willing to let the young people live,
After all, my father is 70 years old, he has no ability to work and wants to eat, even if he does not want to die, he is breaking the village rules, and the whole family is punished. Chen Ping saw that the whole process was painful to die, living in their village may be sad, keeping those rules of death is to save people, although it is not logical, but in that era of food shortage, everything is to survive for the purpose, so Chen Ping did not choose to turn back.
He suddenly saw that it was snowing heavily in the sky, and the excited Chen Ping ran back to the top of the mountain to see his mother, sitting on the ground and sitting with his hands together, begging for something in the sky. Only to see the mother slowly open her eyes, waving to her son to tell him not to turn back and go forward, her begging God has seen, will bless our family with good luck, will not starve people again, because rumors say that the old man on the mountain to fall snow is a good omen.