The River Fuefuki

Oct 19, 1960

1h 57m

★ 7.5

Overview

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.

Genres

War

Drama

History

Production Companies

Shochiku

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Cast

Sadahei

Takahiro Tamura

Okei

Hideko Takamine

Sozo - 1st Son

Matsumoto Hakuō II

Yasuzo - 2nd Son

Kichiemon Nakamura II

Heikichi - 3rd Son

Shinji Tanaka

Ume - Daughter

Shima Iwashita

Tatsu

Michiko Araki

Jiro

Yūsuke Kawazu

Takeda Shingen

Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII

Ojii

Yoshi Katō

Fumio Watanabe

Kuniko Igawa

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