The River Fuefuki

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.

Cast

Takahiro Tamura

Sadahei

Hideko Takamine

Okei

Matsumoto Hakuō II

Sozo - 1st Son

Kichiemon Nakamura II

Yasuzo - 2nd Son

N/A

Shinji Tanaka

Heikichi - 3rd Son

Shima Iwashita

Ume - Daughter

Michiko Araki

Tatsu

Yūsuke Kawazu

Jiro

Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII

Takeda Shingen

Yoshi Katō

Ojii

Fumio Watanabe

Kuniko Igawa