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The River Fuefuki (1960)

Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita

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.

Length 117 minutes

Actors

Takahiro Tamura | Hideko Takamine | Kôshirô Matsumoto | Kichiemon Nakamura | Shinji Tanaka | Shima Iwashita | Michiko Araki | Yûsuke Kawazu | Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII | Yoshi Katô | Fumio Watanabe | Kuniko Igawa | Tôru Abe | Toshiko Kobayashi | Masao Oda | Hisano Yamaoka | Etsuko Ichihara | Tôru Takeuchi | Hiroko Itô | Toshiko Yabuki | Torahiko Hamada | Sen Hara | Shojiro Ogasawara | Shin Ibuki | Tokuji Kobayashi | Rô Ose | Masanao Kawakane | Tsutomu Niijima | Jun Tanizaki | Akie Kokubu | Eiji Tsumura | Hideo Asami | Nobuo Takagi | Hisashi Taki | Kazuo Kobayashi | Kanji Ôsugi | Haruko Chichibu