The Seburi Story

The Seburi Story

1985
2h 5m
6.3

6.3/10

6 votes • View on IMDb
Overview

The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.

Status: Released

Language: JA

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Production Information

Production Companies
Toei Company
Production Countries
Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Quick Facts

Original Title 瀬降り物語
Release Date May 11, 1985
Status Released
Language JA
IMDb ID tt0124113

Cast

Kenichi Hagiwara
Kenichi Hagiwara

Hajime Kinoshita

Yumiko Fujita
Yumiko Fujita

Kuni

Ai Saotome
Ai Saotome

Hana

Michiko Kono
Michiko Kono

Hide

Eiko Nagashima
Eiko Nagashima

Mitsu

Ken Mitsuishi
Ken Mitsuishi

Jiro

Takashi Naito
Takashi Naito

Kazuo

Hideo Murota
Hideo Murota

Kuzushiri

Taiji Tonoyama
Taiji Tonoyama

Kamezo

Rei Okamoto
Rei Okamoto

Tome

Asao Uchida
Asao Uchida

Ayutachi

Nenji Kobayashi
Nenji Kobayashi

Key Crew

Sadao Nakajima
Director
Masao Satô
Producer
Sadao Nakajima
Screenplay
Tatsuo Honda
Producer

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