Nagoya TV Next has uploaded a trailer for Daisuke Tengan’s Dendera to their channel on YouTube.

Tengan is the eldest son of director Shohei Imamura, whose film The Ballad of Narayama won the Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983. It told the story of a remote village which avoided the potential burden of caring for the elderly by banishing them to the top of a nearby mountain to die when they reached the age of 70.

Based on a 2009 novel by Yuya Sato, Dendera covers the same topic from a completely different angle. In the film, 50 elderly women who were abandoned and left to die on “Old Lady Mountain” manage to survive the harsh conditions by banding together and forming a village called “Dendera”. Some of them simply want to live out their final days in peace, while others want revenge against the villagers and family members that abandoned them.

Toei will be releasing “Dendera” in Japan on June 25, 2011.

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