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.
Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita
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Cast

Takahiro Tamura
Sadahei

Hideko Takamine
Okei

Matsumoto Hakuō II
Sozo - 1st Son

Kichiemon Nakamura II
Yasuzo - 2nd Son
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

Tōru Abe

Toshiko Kobayashi
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