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
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
Unknown
Kuniko Igawa
Unknown
Tōru Abe
Unknown
Toshiko Kobayashi
Unknown
Masao Oda
Unknown
Hisano Yamaoka
Unknown
Etsuko Ichihara
Unknown
Toru Takeuchi
Unknown
Hiroko Itō
Unknown
Toshiko Yabuki
Unknown
Torahiko Hamada
Unknown
Izumi Hara
Unknown
Shojiro Ogasawara
Unknown
Shin Ibuki
Unknown
Tokuji Kobayashi
Unknown
Rō Ose
Unknown
Masanao Kawakane
Unknown
Tsutomu Niijima
Unknown
Jun Tanizaki
Unknown
Akie Kokubu
Unknown
Eiji Tsumura
Unknown
Hideo Asami
Unknown
Nobuo Takagi
Unknown
Hisashi Taki
Unknown
Kazuo Kobayashi
Unknown
Kanji Ōsugi
Unknown
Haruko Chichibu
Unknown
Crew
Keisuke Kinoshita
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Shichirō Fukazawa
Novel
Yoshi Sugihara
Editor
Hiroshi Kusuda
Director of Photography
Yoshikazu Ōtsuki
Assistant Director
Kei Hamano
Production Supervisor
Kisaku Ito
Production Design
Matsuo Yamaguchi
Costume Design
Yōichi Mitsuoka
Hairstylist
Yuko Nakajima
Makeup Artist
Chūji Kinoshita
Original Music Composer
Takao Akita
Set Decoration
Saburō Iwai
Set Designer
Kōhei Ezaki
Art Direction
