The River Fuefuki

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.

Genre: War, Drama, History

Stars: Takahiro Tamura, Hideko Takamine, Matsumoto Hakuō II, Kichiemon Nakamura II, Shinji Tanaka, Shima Iwashita

Crew: Shichirō Fukazawa (Novel), Keisuke Kinoshita (Screenplay), Keisuke Kinoshita (Director), Keisuke Kinoshita (Producer), Takao Akita (Set Decoration), Hiroshi Kusuda (Director of Photography)

Country: Japan

Language: 日本語

Studio: Shochiku

Runtime: 117 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Oct 19, 1960

IMDb: 3.5

Keywords:samurai, civil war, based on novel or book, river, peasant, bridge, family relationships, period drama, feudal lord, feudal japan

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The River Fuefuki

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