The Seburi Story (1985)
2h 5m
Running Time
May 11, 1985Release Date
The Seburi Story (1985)
2h 5m
Running Time
May 11, 1985Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Kenichi Hagiwara
Hajime Kinoshita
Yumiko Fujita
Kuni
Michiko Kono
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Takashi Naito
Kazuo
Ken Mitsuishi
Jiro
Sadao Nakajima
Director
Seiji Hayami
Composer
Takayuki Inoue
Composer
Takayuki Inoue
Composer
Hideo Murota
Kuzushiri
Fuminori Minami
Cinematographer
Taiji Tonoyama
Kamezo
Ai Saotome
Hana
Rei Okamoto
Tome
Asao Uchida
Ayutachi
Eiko Nagashima
Mitsu
Yoshio Ichikawa
Imasuke
Tatsuo Honda
Producer
Masao Satô
Producer
Eifu Tamaki
Editor
Toshiyuke Manabe
Art Direction
Nenji Kobayashi
Details.
Wiki.
Seburi Monogatari (瀬降り物語, The Seburi Story) is a 1985 Japanese drama film directed by Sadao Nakajima. It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.