Movie

The River Fuefuki

1960 · 117 min

A slow, sorrowful sweep across generations, heavy with loss and the quiet endurance of those left behind.

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.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: War, family, grief, survival
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: war
family
grief
survival
fate
Places: countryside
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none