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In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
Michida Yazo is an ordinary office worker who has no interest in alcohol or gambling. His wife, Tomomi, is a nurse and prefers to work the well-paying night shifts, so the couple only have sex when Tomomi is tired after a night shift and Yazo has morning wood. One day, Mitsuki and her husband move in next door. However, soon after getting married, her husband, Motoharu, goes on a business trip overseas. Mitsuki has such poor taste that people say, "Your body is delicious, but your cooking is inedible." While Motoharu is away, she attends "Mitsu Keiko's Cooking Class" to learn how to make delicious food, but the instructor, Mitsu Keiko, is not only greedy for food but also for sex...
