The River Fuefuki

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Release date: October 19, 1960
Duration: 117 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Takahiro Tamura
Sadahei
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Matsumoto HakuĊ II
Sozo - 1st Son
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Kichiemon Nakamura II
Yasuzo - 2nd Son