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The River Fuefuki

Genres

War , Drama , History

Duration

117 min

Director

Keisuke Kinoshita

Rating

7.5

Release Date

October 19, 1960

The River Fuefuki

Original title: 笛吹川

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Criterion Channel

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.