The Seburi Story backdrop
The Seburi Story poster
Trailer
The Seburi Story
6.3
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2h 5m
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1985
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Released
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.

Cast
Kenichi Hagiwara poster
Kenichi Hagiwara
Hajime Kinoshita
Yumiko Fujita poster
Yumiko Fujita
Kuni
Ai Saotome poster
Ai Saotome
Hana
Michiko Kono poster
Michiko Kono
Hide
Eiko Nagashima poster
Eiko Nagashima
Mitsu
Ken Mitsuishi poster
Ken Mitsuishi
Jiro
Takashi Naito poster
Takashi Naito
Kazuo
Hideo Murota poster
Hideo Murota
Kuzushiri
Taiji Tonoyama poster
Taiji Tonoyama
Kamezo
Rei Okamoto poster
Rei Okamoto
Tome
Asao Uchida poster
Asao Uchida
Ayutachi
Nenji Kobayashi poster
Nenji Kobayashi
Yoshio Ichikawa poster
Yoshio Ichikawa
Imasuke

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