* {{cite news |first=Vincent|last=Canby|authorlink=Vincent Canby|title=The Ballad of Narayama (1983) (Movie review)|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06EFD61638F93AA35757C0A962948260|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|date=1984-04-09|accessdate=2007-11-29}}
* {{cite journal|last=Hung|first=Lee Wood|year=2007|title=Japanese Adaptation to Nature and Imamura's Ballad of Narayama – Based on the Difference between Imamura's Film and Fukasawa's Original Novel|journal=Studies In Comparative Culture|volume=|issue=75|pages=55–61|url=http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/jas/staffpro/lee/studies_in_comp_cul_pp55-61.pdf|language=Japanese, English|format=PDF|accessdate=2007-11-29|archive-date=2011-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511092006/http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/jas/staffpro/lee/studies_in_comp_cul_pp55-61.pdf|dead-url=yes}}
* {{cite journal|last=Hung|first=Lee Wood|date=May 2003|title=Natural Culturalism in The Ballad of Narayama: A Study of Shohei Imamura's Thematic Concerns|journal=Asian Cinema|volume=14|issue=1|pages=146–166|publisher=Asian Cinema Studies Society|location=[[Pennsylvania]]|url=http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/jas/staffpro/lee/natural_culturalism.pdf|format=PDF|accessdate=2007-11-29|archive-date=2011-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511092143/http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/jas/staffpro/lee/natural_culturalism.pdf|dead-url=yes}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1983/dg001270.htm|title=楢山節考 (''Narayama bushiko'')|accessdate=2007-11-29|language=Japanese|publisher=[[Japanese Movie Database]]}}
