The River Fuefuki
3.8
Length117 mins
LanguageJapanese
Release Date1960-10-19
StatusReleased
War
Drama
History
Synopsis
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.