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The Seburi Story (1985)

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.
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Sadao Nakajima profile
Sadao Nakajima

Director

Sadao Nakajima profile
Sadao Nakajima

Screenplay

Cast

Kenichi Hagiwara profile
Kenichi Hagiwara

Hajime Kinoshita

Yumiko Fujita profile
Yumiko Fujita

Kuni

Ai Saotome profile
Ai Saotome

Hana

Michiko Kono profile
Michiko Kono

Hide

Eiko Nagashima profile
Eiko Nagashima

Mitsu

Ken Mitsuishi profile
Ken Mitsuishi

Jiro

Takashi Naito profile
Takashi Naito

Kazuo

Hideo Murota profile
Hideo Murota

Kuzushiri

Taiji Tonoyama profile
Taiji Tonoyama

Kamezo

Rei Okamoto profile
Rei Okamoto

Tome

Asao Uchida profile
Asao Uchida

Ayutachi

Nenji Kobayashi profile
Nenji Kobayashi

Kenichi Hagiwara profile
Kenichi Hagiwara

Hajime Kinoshita

Yumiko Fujita profile
Yumiko Fujita

Kuni

Ai Saotome profile
Ai Saotome

Hana

Michiko Kono profile
Michiko Kono

Hide

Eiko Nagashima profile
Eiko Nagashima

Mitsu

Ken Mitsuishi profile
Ken Mitsuishi

Jiro

Takashi Naito profile
Takashi Naito

Kazuo

Hideo Murota profile
Hideo Murota

Kuzushiri

Taiji Tonoyama profile
Taiji Tonoyama

Kamezo

Rei Okamoto profile
Rei Okamoto

Tome

Asao Uchida profile
Asao Uchida

Ayutachi

Nenji Kobayashi profile
Nenji Kobayashi

Extra

Release Date

May 11, 1985

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

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