The River Fuefuki

The story

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.

Cast

T Takahiro TamuraSadahei H Hideko TakamineOkei M Matsumoto Hakuō IISozo - 1st Son K Kichiemon Nakamura IIYasuzo - 2nd Son S Shinji TanakaHeikichi - 3rd Son S Shima IwashitaUme - Daughter M Michiko ArakiTatsu Y Yūsuke KawazuJiro N Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIITakeda Shingen Y Yoshi KatōOjii F Fumio Watanabe K Kuniko Igawa

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T Tōru Abe T Toshiko Kobayashi M Masao Oda H Hisano Yamaoka E Etsuko Ichihara T Toru Takeuchi H Hiroko Itō T Toshiko Yabuki T Torahiko Hamada I Izumi Hara S Shojiro Ogasawara S Shin Ibuki T Tokuji Kobayashi R Rō Ose M Masanao Kawakane T Tsutomu Niijima J Jun Tanizaki A Akie Kokubu E Eiji Tsumura H Hideo Asami N Nobuo Takagi H Hisashi Taki K Kazuo Kobayashi K Kanji Ōsugi H Haruko Chichibu