The Seburi Story

The Seburi Story

Seburi monogatari
🎞️ Movie 125 min JP
โ˜… 6.3 /10 1985

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

Ken'ichi Hagiwara
Ken'ichi Hagiwara
Hajime Kinoshita
Yumiko Fujita
Yumiko Fujita
Kuni
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Michiko Kohno
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Takashi Naitô
Takashi Naitô
Kazuo
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Ai Saotome
Hana
Eiko Nagashima
Eiko Nagashima
Mitsu
Taiji Tonoyama
Taiji Tonoyama
Kamezo
Ken Mitsuishi
Ken Mitsuishi
Jiro
Hideo Murota
Hideo Murota
Kuzushiri
Rei Okamoto
Rei Okamoto
Tome
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Seiji Hayami
Composer
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Takayuki Inoue
Composer
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Fuminori Minami
Cinematographer

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