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The River Fuefuki is a 1960 Japanese historical period drama based on a novel by Shichirō Fukazawa. Critic Donald Richie considered "The River Fuefuki" to be Kinoshita's last important film. Marcus Stiglegger found it to be one of Kinoshita's most experimental and spectacular films. The film is set during eld of the Sengoku period period in Japan, with the action marked by historical events from the Battle of Iidagawara and the birth of Takeda Shingen in 1521 to the Battle of Tenmokuzan and fall of the Takeda clan in 1582. The film displays the impact of the Takeda clan's actions on five generations of a farming family, particularly family members' decisions to join or avoid the Takeda's battles of the period. Alexander Jacoby found the message of the film to be "a simple pacifism." Stiglegger viewed it as a pessimistic version of the samurai myth, contrasting it with Akira Kurosawa's samurai films from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Original Release
10/19/1960
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hideko Takamine | Okei |
Takahiro Tamura | Sadahei |
Kôshirô Matsumoto | Sozo, 1st son / Sozo - 1st Son |
Shima Iwashita | Ume, daughter / Ume - Daughter |
Yûsuke Kawazu | Jiro |
Shinji Tanaka | Heikichi, 3rd son / Heikichi - 3rd Son |
Kichiemon Nakamura | Yasuzo, 2nd son / Yasuzo - 2nd Son |
Fumio Watanabe | |
Yoshi Katô | Ojii |
Kuniko Igawa |
Directors
Writers
Keisuke Kinoshita, Shichirō Fukazawa
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hideko Takamine | Okei |
Takahiro Tamura | Sadahei |
Kôshirô Matsumoto | Sozo, 1st son / Sozo - 1st Son |
Shima Iwashita | Ume, daughter / Ume - Daughter |
Yûsuke Kawazu | Jiro |
Shinji Tanaka | Heikichi, 3rd son / Heikichi - 3rd Son |
Kichiemon Nakamura | Yasuzo, 2nd son / Yasuzo - 2nd Son |
Fumio Watanabe | |
Yoshi Katô | Ojii |
Kuniko Igawa | |
Ryûsuke Daigenji | |
Tôru Abe | Katsuyan |
Toshiko Kobayashi | Hisa (grown up) |
Masao Oda | Hanpei |
Michiko Araki | Tatsu |
Hisano Yamaoka | Mitsu |
Etsuko Ichihara | Kurokoma's wife |
Tôru Takeuchi | |
Hiroko Itô | |
Toshiko Yabuki |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Keisuke Kinoshita | Producer |
Shigeru Wakita | Producer |