The River Fuefuki
笛吹川
Release: 1960-10-19
·Runtime: 117m
·★ 7.5
War
Drama
History
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Shochiku
Cast
Yūsuke Kawazu
as Jiro
Toshiko Kobayashi
Izumi Hara
Tōru Abe
Nobuo Takagi
Michiko Araki
as Tatsu
Rō Ose
Torahiko Hamada
Hideko Takamine
as Okei
Masao Oda
Hisano Yamaoka
Shima Iwashita
as Ume - Daughter
Kichiemon Nakamura II
as Yasuzo - 2nd Son
Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII
as Takeda Shingen
Fumio Watanabe
Kuniko Igawa
Tokuji Kobayashi
Takahiro Tamura
as Sadahei
Yoshi Katō
as Ojii
Etsuko Ichihara
Matsumoto Hakuō II
as Sozo - 1st Son
