Title: The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)
Content:  In early 2000s, the movie had a chance to be released in China, on condition that the sex scenes were censored. The director Imamura consulted some Chinese directors. They replied that the sex scenes were necessary contrast to the scenes of death. Imamura decided to turn down the proposal.
Title: The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film)
Content: Kinuyo Tanaka as Orin ; Teiji Takahashi as Tatsuhei ; Yūko Mochizuki as Tamayan ; Danko Ichikawa as Kesakichi ; Keiko Ogasawara as Matsu-yan ; Seiji Miyaguchi as Matayan ; Yūnosuke Itō as Matayan's son ; Ken Mitsuda as Teruyan 
Title: The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)
Content:  The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin, Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa. It is an adaptation of the book Narayama bushikō by Shichirō Fukazawa and slightly inspired by the 1958 film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. Both films explore the legendary practice of obasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die. Imamura's film won the Palme d'Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
Title: The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film)
Content:  During the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, a digitally restored version of the film was screened out of competition, as part of the festival's Cannes Classics selections. In a 2013 review of The Criterion Collection release of the Blu-ray Disc version of the restored film, Slant Magazine's Jordan Cronk said Kinoshita, a "less celebrated" practitioner in the jidaigeki genre, "'takes one of Japan's most chronicled cultural tools, Kabuki theater, as a stylistic blueprint to interpret both a work of literary renown and a legend of ancestral import. And yet for all its solemn reverence (both spiritually and socially), it's one of the era's most radical experiments. Shot exclusively 
Title: The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film)
Content:  The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) is a 1958 Japanese period film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and based on the 1956 novella of the same name by Shichirō Fukazawa. The film explores the legendary practice of obasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die.
Title: The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film)
Content:  The film featured in competition at the 19th Venice International Film Festival and divided critics between those who thought it a masterpiece and those who thought it poor. The film won three Mainichi Film Awards, including Best Film; it was submitted as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards, but was not chosen as one of the five nominees. In a June 1961 review in The New York Times, A.H. Weiler called the film "an odd and colorful evocation of Japan's past that is only occasionally striking"; "It is stylized and occasionally graphic fare in the manner of the Kabuki Theatre, which is realistically staged, but decidedly strange to Western tastes." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film a maximum 4 stars, and added it to his Great Movies list in 2013, making it the final film he added to the list before his death.
Title: The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)
Content: Cannes Film Festival (1983) ; Palme d'Or ; Japan Academy Film Prize (1984) ; Best Actor Ken Ogata ; Best Film ; Best Sound Kenichi Benitani ; Blue Ribbon Awards (1984) ; Best Actor Ken Ogata ; Excellence in Cinematography Award (1984): Masao Tochizawa ; Hochi Film Award (1983) ; Best Supporting Actress Mitsuko Baisho ; Mainichi Film Concours (1984) ; Best Actor (Ken Ogata) ; Best Sound Recording: Kenichi Benitani 
Title: Rama Narayanan
Content:  Narayanan came to Chennai intending to become a songwriter, but he became a dialogue writer for films. He and his friend M. A. Khaja started to write dialogues together under the pen name Ram-Rahim. In 1976, Narayanan wrote his first story, screenplay and dialogue for the film Aasai Arubadhu Naal. He produced his first film Meenakshi Kungumam in 1977 and directed his first film Sumai in 1981. He also wrote the script for Chiranjeevi's film Punnami Naagu. His 50th film was Veeran Veluthambi, for which M. Karunanidhi wrote the story and dialogue. His 100th film was Thirupathi Ezhumalai Venkatesa. In the 2010s, he finished the making of a comedy film titled Siva Poojaiyil Karadi with Shiva and Udhayathara in the lead roles, but the film did not have a theatrical release. Narayanan was an MLA from the Karaikudi constituency in 1989 and the chairman of Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram in 1996. He has received the Kalaimamani award of the State Government.
Title: The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film)
Content:  soundstages, save for one brief final scene, the film consolidates two distinct mediums, theater and cinema, into an analysis of both aesthetic functionality and affinity. By not masking his chosen conceptual conceit (and indeed, by heightening it), Kinoshita is free to explore the formulations and possibilities of both modes of presentation." Cronk concludes "Kinoshita respects the source material and conventions of the culture he's depicting so much, ...that the film plays more like a cinematic elegy than cosmetic theater. When the film cuts in its final scene to actual location footage, it isn't jarring so much as relieving, a chance to exhale after an exhausting journey."
Title: K.A. Narayan
Content:  K A Narayan, also known as Narayan, was an Indian screenwriter who is known for many acclaimed films such as Johny Mera Naam (1970), Victoria No. 203 (1972), Jewel Thief (1967), Geet Gaya Patharon Ne (1964), Ek Musafir Ek Hasina'' (1962) and many more.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Ballad of Narayama?
Answer: Keisuke Kinoshita.