Film
The River Fuefuki
1960 · 1h 57m · War · Drama · History
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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.
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Cast
Takahiro Tamura
Sadahei
Hideko Takamine
Okei
Matsumoto Hakuō II
Sozo - 1st Son
Kichiemon Nakamura II
Yasuzo - 2nd Son
Shinji Tanaka
Heikichi - 3rd Son
Shima Iwashita
Ume - Daughter
Michiko Araki
Tatsu
Yūsuke Kawazu
Jiro
Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII
Takeda Shingen
Yoshi Katō
Ojii
Fumio Watanabe
Kuniko Igawa
Tōru Abe
Toshiko Kobayashi
Masao Oda
Hisano Yamaoka
Crew
- Keisuke KinoshitaDirector · Screenplay · Producer
- Shichirō FukazawaNovel
- Hiroshi KusudaDirector of Photography
- Chūji KinoshitaOriginal Music Composer
- Yoshi SugiharaEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- October 19, 1960
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- War, Drama, History
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