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
Hideko Takamine
as Okei
Masao Oda
Hisano Yamaoka
Etsuko Ichihara
Takahiro Tamura
as Sadahei
Shima Iwashita
as Ume - Daughter
Yoshi Katō
as Ojii
Toshiko Kobayashi
Kichiemon Nakamura II
as Yasuzo - 2nd Son
Nobuo Takagi
Michiko Araki
as Tatsu
Yūsuke Kawazu
as Jiro
Kuniko Igawa
Torahiko Hamada
Tokuji Kobayashi
Rō Ose
Matsumoto Hakuō II
as Sozo - 1st Son
Tōru Abe
Izumi Hara
Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII
as Takeda Shingen
Fumio Watanabe
