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.
Stars: Takahiro Tamura, Hideko Takamine, Matsumoto Hakuō II, Kichiemon Nakamura II, Shinji Tanaka, Shima Iwashita
Crew: Keisuke Kinoshita (Director), Keisuke Kinoshita (Screenplay), Shichirō Fukazawa (Novel), Yoshi Sugihara (Editor), Hiroshi Kusuda (Director of Photography), Keisuke Kinoshita (Producer)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Shochiku
Runtime: 117 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 19, 1960
IMDb: 3.5
