Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata\'s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age -- the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.
In between are the complex relationships that were.
At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby Mountain with the sounds of death.
By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory.
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata\'s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age -- the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing
