Movie1968 · Released · 173 min
Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well for the Sugar Mill – an encounter which leads to both conflict and complicity in strange and powerful ways.
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Rentaro Mikuni
Nekichi Futori
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Kametaro Futori
Kazuo Kitamura
Kariya
Hideko Okiyama
Toriko Futori
Yasuko Matsui
Uma Futori
Yoshi Katō
Ryugen Ryu
Hōsei Komatsu
Shimajiri
Chikako Hosokawa
Mrs. Azuma
Chikage Oogi
Mrs. Kariya
Jun Hamamura
Tokusato
Taiji Tonoyama
Higa
Susumu Mizushima
Fumoto
Yasuhiko Ishizu
Tsuchimochi
Kiyoshi Tokugawa
Yamashiro
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Young Man
Izumi Hara
Unari Ryu
Tatsu Nakamura
Uto Sato
Kanjūrō Arashi
Yamamori Futori
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