Underplayed Gems

The River Fuefuki (1960)

The River Fuefuki poster
Original title
笛吹川
Directed by
Keisuke Kinoshita
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 57m
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A family lives in a Japanese village near the Fuefuki River through several generations of war and peace. The story follows their lives and deaths as time passes and the world changes around them.

historicalslow-burnpoeticmelancholicmeditativefamily-focusedvisually stylizedquiet

What happens

The River Fuefuki (笛吹川, Fuefukigawa) is a 1960 Japanese historical drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and starring Hideko Takamine. It is based on a novel by Shichirō Fukazawa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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